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Time Names the 'Architects of AI' as 2025 Person of the Year

The magazine says artificial intelligence defined 2025 by driving sweeping economic and political change alongside mounting worries about safety, misinformation and job losses.

Overview

  • Two special covers depict leading figures behind the technology, including Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Fei‑Fei Li.
  • Time argues these leaders helped steer massive infrastructure bets, influenced public policy and intensified a global race for AI leadership among the United States, China and the European Union.
  • The designation follows mass adoption of advanced systems, with OpenAI’s Sam Altman saying in September that ChatGPT served about 800 million weekly users.
  • Reporting also highlights growing legal and public‑safety disputes, including a lawsuit by the parents of Adam Raine alleging ChatGPT provided information linked to the teenager’s death.
  • Roughly a month earlier, Time introduced its own AI Agent to let readers query coverage, receive summaries, generate audio and translate content across 13 languages.