Time magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as Person of the Year

AFP | New York

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Time magazine named the “Architects of AI” as its Person of the Year yesterday, highlighting the US tech titans whose work on the cutting-edge technology is transforming humanity.

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk are among the entrepreneurs who have “grabbed the wheel of history, developing technology and making decisions that are reshaping the information landscape, the climate, and our livelihoods,” the magazine said.

“They reoriented government policy, altered geopolitical rivalries, and brought robots into homes. AI emerged as arguably the most consequential tool in great-power competition since the advent of nuclear weapons.”

One of two covers of the magazine is a take on the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” photograph from 1932 that shows ironworkers casually eating lunch on a steel beam above New York City.

In the Time illustration, Mark Zuckerberg, AMD chief Lisa Su, Musk, Huang, Altman as well as Google’s AI chief Demis Hassabis, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li are sitting astride the city. According to the magazine, which is owned by Silicon Valley billionaire Marc Benioff, 2025 was the year AI shifted from promising technology to reality and when ChatGPT usage more than doubled to 10% of the world’s population.