{"success":true,"queryParameters":{"includeMediaUrls":true},"results":[{"data":{"requestUrl":"https://apnews.com/article/time-person-of-year-2025-77ec65c6792bc99ec2ce1919c5f421ea","url":"https://apnews.com/article/time-person-of-year-2025-77ec65c6792bc99ec2ce1919c5f421ea","summary":"# Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as its person of the year for 2025\nBy: By \n            MIKE CATALINI\nSite Name: AP News\nPublished: 2025-12-11T05:01:45\n\nThe “Architects of AI” were named Time’s person of the year Thursday, with the magazine citing 2025 as when the potential of [artificial intelligence](https://apnews.com/hub/artificial-intelligence) “roared into view” with no turning back.\n\n“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.\n\nThe 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.\n\n“We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982,” wrote Sam Jacobs, the editor-in-chief, in an explanation of the choice. “The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie.”\n\nOne of [the cover images](https://apnews.com/article/time-ai-cover-tech-profiles-339ebfbc508e8f498baec669776f834a) resembling the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s shows eight tech leaders sitting on the beam: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind division Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, who launched her own startup World Labs last year.\n\nAnother cover image shows scaffolding surrounding the giant letters “AI” made to look like computer componentry.\n\nStay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel.\n\n[Follow on](https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va7Tv2j59PwNEyqGCi1y)\n\nFive of the eight people selected — Musk, Zuckerberg, Huang, Altman and Su — are already billionaires with a collective fortune of $870 billion, based on the latest estimates compiled by Forbes magazine. Much of the wealth has been accumulated during the past three years of AI fever.\n\nIt made sense for Time to anoint AI because 2025 was the year that it shifted from “a novel technology explored by early adopters to one where a critical mass of consumers see it as part of their mainstream lives,” Thomas Husson, principal analyst at research firm Forrester, said by email.\n\nThe magazine noted AI company CEOs’ attendance at [President Donald Trump’s inauguration](https://apnews.com/article/trump-inauguration-tech-billionaires-zuckerberg-musk-wealth-0896bfc3f50d941d62cebc3074267ecd) this year at the Capitol as a herald for the prominence of the sector.\n\n“This was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back or opting out,” Jacobs wrote.\n\nSome experts expressed caution over the AI boom and the race to develop increasingly powerful systems.\n\n“Leading AI companies are working feverishly to replace humans in every facet of life, and they’re not being shy about it,” said Anthony Aguirre, executive director of the nonprofit Future of Life Institute, which works on AI safety issues. “The impact on our society could be catastrophic if there are no guardrails protecting what’s human, and most important to us.”\n\nAI was a leading contender for the top slot, according to prediction markets, along with Huang and Altman. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope whose election this year followed the death of Pope Francis, was also considered a contender, with Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani topping lists as well.\n\nAfter winning his second bid for the White House, [Trump was named](https://apnews.com/article/trump-stock-exchange-time-nyse-bell-ringing-91a59ff0f4ce77c0c6f87e55a38c6c75) 2024’s person of the year by the magazine, succeeding Taylor Swift, who was the [2023 person of the year](https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-time-person-of-year-2023-6c8ce1275db4cc326fe6ac94ea20bace).\n\nThe magazine [was bought](https://apnews.com/article/ae069c451c1b4d6fa5e368cbfd0613c3) by [Marc Benioff](https://apnews.com/article/salesforce-marc-benioff-artificial-intelligence-layoffs-pandemic-2c5c5f7f6daf50ddcae675b422aa745f) in 2018. Benioff, one of the co-founders of cloud-computing firm Salesforce, has called AI “probably the most important” technological wave of his lifetime. He has repeatedly said he doesn’t get involved in Time’s editorial decisions.\n\nThe magazine’s selection dates from 1927, when its editors have picked the person they say most shaped headlines over the previous 12 months.\n\n\\_\\_\\_\n\nAssociated Press writers Matt O’Brien in Cupertino, California, Kelvin Chan in London, and Michael Liedtke in San Ramon, California, contributed to this article.","mediaUrls":[{"url":"https://assets.apnews.com/19/66/bc546486408c8595f01753a9fbeb/ap-logo-176-by-208.svg","alt":"AP Logo"},{"url":"https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/94c503b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/640x236+0+0/resize/320x118!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fc3%2F4c%2F65482a7b452db66043542c093eaf%2Fpromo-2x.png"},{"url":"https://assets.apnews.com/54/95/4fab11fc4f1bb6e1c6d486086a02/getitongoogleplay-badge-web-color-english.png"},{"url":"https://assets.apnews.com/9f/14/e730153245ddbefdf1f69031adea/download-on-the-app-store-badge-us-uk-rgb-blk-01.png"},{"url":"https://assets.apnews.com/19/66/bc546486408c8595f01753a9fbeb/ap-logo-176-by-208.svg","alt":"AP Logo"},{"url":"https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/94c503b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/640x236+0+0/resize/320x118!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fc3%2F4c%2F65482a7b452db66043542c093eaf%2Fpromo-2x.png"},{"url":"https://assets.apnews.com/54/95/4fab11fc4f1bb6e1c6d486086a02/getitongoogleplay-badge-web-color-english.png"},{"url":"https://assets.apnews.com/9f/14/e730153245ddbefdf1f69031adea/download-on-the-app-store-badge-us-uk-rgb-blk-01.png"},{"url":"https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/4ff6cb2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3686x2453+0+12/resize/320x213!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fd8%2F06%2F352ac07a54389eb698034adefb4f%2F0b47214611874c589cade8eccb13f7d6","alt":"A sign for Time magazine is displayed outside the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025 in New York. 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