TIME Magazine has named the “Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year, recognising key figures behind artificial intelligence’s transformative impact. The group includes prominent leaders like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang, who have significantly shaped AI’s development and deployment. This recognition highlights AI’s dual-edged influence on industries, economies, and global dynamics in 2025.
Who are the ‘Architects of AI’?
TIME Magazine’s 2025 Person of the Year includes eight influential figures such as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. These individuals were recognised for their pivotal roles in creating and advancing artificial intelligence, which TIME described as the year when AI’s potential became “undeniable and irreversible.” The magazine emphasised their collective impact in “delivering the age of thinking machines” and transforming society
Starting from the launch of DeepSeek, the blogpost went on to remember how the very next day tech titans such as Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son announced their pledge to invest up to $500 billion to build AI data centers around the US.
“Whatever the question was, AI was the answer,” it said, adding it “felt like magic.”
It further said, “We saw it accelerate medical research and productivity, and seem to make the impossible possible. It was hard to read or watch anything without being confronted with news about the rapid advancement of a technology and the people driving it. Those stories unleashed a million debates about how disruptive AI would be for our lives. No business leader could talk about the future without invoking the impact of this technological revolution. No parent or teacher could ignore how their teenager or student was using it.”
“Every industry needs it, every company uses it, and every nation needs to build it,” Jensen Huang, who leads Nvidia, told TIME. “This is the single most impactful technology of our time.”
But it came with its own dark side.
“All this progress comes with trade-offs: The amount of energy required to run these systems drains resources. Jobs are going poof. Misinformation proliferates as AI posts and videos make it harder to determine what’s real. Large-scale cyberattacks are possible without human intervention,” it said.
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