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Time magazine has named its 2025 person of the year: the "Architects of AI" are being recognized for "thinking machines" that have soared to prominence with no "opting out."
The person of the year title goes to the person (though not always a person) they say most shaped headlines over the previous 12 months. The magazine has been selecting a person of the year since 1927.
Time person of the year 2025
What they're saying:
"For delivering the age of thinking machines, 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," Time said in a social media post.
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"This was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back or opting out," Sam Jacobs, Time’s editor-in-chief, wrote.
Time magazine’s person of the year for 2025 is not one person, but a group of industry titans collectively called the "architects of AI." (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The magazine was deliberate in selecting people — the "individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI" — rather than the technology itself.
But Time has awarded the title to objects instead of humans in the past.
The backstory:
"We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982," Jacobs wrote. "The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie."
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Time person of the year 2025 cover
Big picture view:
One of the cover images resembling the "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photograph from the 1930s shows eight tech leaders sitting on the beam: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind division Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, who launched her own startup World Labs last year.
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Another cover image shows scaffolding surrounding the giant letters "AI" made to look like computer components.
Who else was in the running?
Dig deeper:
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope whose election this year followed the death of Pope Francis, was also considered a contender, with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani also appearing on the short list.
Previous Time persons of the year
Trump was named last year’s person of the year by the magazine after winning the 2024 presidential election.
Taylor Swift was the 2023 person of the year.
The Source: This report includes information from Time magazine and The Associated Press.