TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ as 2025 Person of the Year

TIME magazine has chosen the 'Architects of AI' as its 2025 person of the year, paying attention to the individual responsibility for the innovative technology rather than the science itself. According to the article, 2025 was marked as an important event that "roared into view" with no turning back.

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According to TIME's release, the award rewards those who 'imagined, created, and built AI', giving credit for bringing in the era of intelligent machines that have both excited and alarmed people. "For delivering the age of thinking machine, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the architects of AI are TIME's 2025 person of the year, " the magazine wrote on social media.

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Sam Jacobs, editor in chief, highlighted that TIME has sometimes selected ideas rather than people, noting past examples like the personal computer in 1982 and the threatened earth in 1988. He highlighted that selecting the makers rather than the product itself gave a human-centred perspective on a technology that is rapidly changing society. He also added that the 1982 decision to choose the personal computer over Apple's Steve Jobs ended up being the focus of books and a film.

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Analysts concur that the timing is appropriate. Thomas Husson, a principal analyst at Forrester 2025, marked the transition of artificial intelligence from a specialist advance used by early adopters to a mainstream utility accepted by a critical mass of customers. Here, some executives, including OpenAI's Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, were ranked among the top candidates by prediction markets. Pope Leo XIV, President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Zohran Mandani, the next Mayor of New York, were reportedly among the other names to be considered.

Since 1927, TIME has chosen a person of the year every year to honour the person who had the biggest impact on global events.