The American magazine Time has named the “artificial intelligence architects” as its “Person of the Year” for 2025.
The following people made it to the cover:
- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta.
- Lisa Su, President of AMD.
- Elon Musk, owner of X, Tesla, and SpaceX.
- Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA.
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
- Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind.
- Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.
- Fei-Fei Lee, founder of ImageNet and startup World Labs.
The cover refers to the 1932 photo “Lunch on a Skyscraper,” in which the builders of the Rockefeller Center skyscraper in New York sit on a steel beam.
The Times writes that 2025 was the year when the full potential of artificial intelligence was unleashed, and “it became clear that there would be no turning back.” For decades, humanity has been preparing for the emergence of thinking machines, admiring their ability to defeat chess champions and predict protein structures, but also feeling terrified of them. But this year, the debate over how to use AI responsibly has given way to a sprint to deploy it as quickly as possible.