Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as its person of the year for 2025

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/time-person-of-year-2025-77ec65c6792bc99ec2ce1919c5f421ea

Time magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025
Updated 7:47 AM CST, December 11, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The “Architects of AI” were named Time magazine’s person of the year for 2025 on Thursday.

The magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with no turning back.

“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.

The magazine was deliberate in selecting people — the “individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI” — rather than the technology itself, though there would have been some precedent for that.






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[Mike Nelson]

1. Lord, what fools...

... they simply asked AI, "Who should win?

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[RockCreek]

14. Not Grok

Grok would have said Elon Musk this year and every year for eternity.

[mwmisses4289]

3. Wow, how wrong for person(s) of the year can you get?

AI is flawed- so flawed it should never have been released. It kinda makes me think of microsofts ME program- iirc, that program rolled out with so many bugs that it was pulled after six months and people went back to 97 for a few more years.

[newdeal2]

4. Time is owned by the Salesforce CEO

Who of course needs to push AI to increase his own stock prices.

We need independent media. Now.

[EdmondDantes_]

7. The person of the year is the most noteworthy person or persons

Nothing to do with good or bad impact.

[travelingthrulife]

8. Except we will soon no longer know what's real. A fascists dream.

[harumph]

5. Interesting pic.

Give em all a cigarette and a blindfold.

[Gore1FL]

6. Given the criterion for the award this seems appropriate.

It’s weird that every year people seem to think the award is an honor rather than an observation.

Yet, here we are, again.

[anciano]

9. Relevant selection....

AI is the new reality of modern life.

[highplainsdem]

10. Most if not all of them belong in prison for intellectual property theft. All of them could probably be

charged with that and/or pollution and/or business fraud and/or circular financing.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. Remember: ". . .for better or for worse. . ."

is the main criteria Time has for making their choice.

[librechik]

12. AI wrote that. n/t

[RoeVWade]

13. Sitting on girder --that's about right -

It's not really a celebration award. Just sometimes they have someone good.