TIME Names ‘Architects Of AI’ its Person Of The Year

TIME names AI architects its Person of the Year for shaping 2025’s tech and global landscape.
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TIME Names ‘Architects Of AI’ its Person Of The Year
AI Architects Take TIME’s Person of the Year Spotlight Each December, TIME Magazine selects a Person of the Year — the individual or group that has most influenced world events, for better or worse. In past years, this has ranged from Taylor Swift to Donald Trump, and even Adolf Hitler in 1938. For 2025, TIME broke tradition, honoring not a single person but a group: the so-called “Architects of AI.” This selection recognizes the tech leaders whose innovations and decisions are driving the global AI race, reshaping industries, and stirring both excitement and anxiety worldwide. Credit: TIME Magazine Who Are the Architects of AI? TIME’s choice highlights top executives and innovators shaping AI today. The list includes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, AMD’s Lisa Su, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and World Labs’ Fei-Fei Li. These figures represent the forefront of AI development, racing both alongs…