Time Magazine Names 'Architects of AI' as its Person of the Year for 2025

AI was a leading contender for the top slot, according to prediction markets, along with tech CEOs Jensen Huang of Nvidia and Sam Altman of OpenAI.

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Dec 11, 2025 — 2 min read

Photo illustration of Time’s 2025 Person of the Year covers by Gabriella Turrisi/Yahoo News

The “Architects of AI” were named Time's person of the year for 2025 on Thursday, with the magazine citing this year as 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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