Time magazine announced "Architects of AI" as its 2025 person of the year on Thursday, rather than picking a singular individual for the honor.
"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," the outlet noted in a post on X.
The post features two magazine covers, one of which prominently depicts eight Big Tech figures appearing to sit next to each other on a beam high above a city — these include Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, xAI's Elon Musk, OpenAI's Sam Altman, AMD's Lisa Su, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, Antrhopic's Dario Amodei, and Fei-Fei Li of Stanford and World Labs.
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The work by digital painter Jason Seiler is "an homage to the famous 1932 photograph of construction workers on a steel beam 800 feet above the RCA building in New York City," according to Time.
Artificial intelligence and its various applications have been taking the world by storm, with many predicting significant changes on the horizon as the technology progresses and permeates society.
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"Thanks to Huang, [SoftBank's Masayoshi] Son, Altman, and other AI titans, humanity is now flying down the highway, all gas no brakes, toward a highly automated and highly uncertain future," Time wrote.
Last year, the outlet named then-President-elect Donald Trump as 2024 person of the year.
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In 2023, the distinction went to music superstar Taylor Swift.
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