Time Magazine: 'AI Architects' are 'Person of the Year'
Every year, the editors of Time Magazine decide who has most shaped the year. In 2025, that was Jensen Huang & Co, because AI determined everything.
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Time Magazine from the USA has named the "AI Architects" as "Person of the Year" and made it clear who they meant with one of two cover images. In homage to the almost 100-year-old, world-famous photo "Lunch atop a Skyscraper", it shows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and other key figures from the AI industry on a steel girder above New York. The second cover shows the two large letters AI (the English abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence) made of computer parts and surrounded by scaffolding.
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2025 was the year "in which the full potential of AI became clear and it became evident that there was no turning back and no opting out," the editors justify the decision. They observed how AI accelerated medical research and production and "made the impossible possible." It is difficult to read or watch anything without being confronted with news about the rapid progress of technology or the people responsible for it, the magazine writes – in a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. No one could ignore AI and the effects of the "technological revolution," whether they were CEOs or parents.
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The US magazine has been naming a Person of the Year for almost 100 years, starting in 1927 with pilot Charles Lindbergh. People or groups are chosen who, in the opinion of the editors, have most shaped society each year – regardless of whether for good or bad. For example, Adolf Hitler landed on the cover in 1938, and Joseph Stalin was "Man of the Year" in 1939 and 1942. People from IT have also graced the coveted cover before; in 1999, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was chosen, and in 2010, Mark Zuckerberg. In 2006, the "private creators" of the internet were also named Person of the Year; the cover at the time only featured a mirror.
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