{"id":440143,"date":"2025-12-11T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440143\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:12:13","slug":"times-2025-person-of-the-year-the-architects-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/440143\/","title":{"rendered":"Time\u2019s 2025 Person of the Year: The architects of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time magazine has unveiled its 2025 Person of the Year<\/a>: The architects of AI.<\/p>\n

\u201c2025 was the year when artificial intelligence<\/a>\u2019s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back,\u201d Time explained in its announcement<\/a> on Thursday morning. \u201cFor 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\u2019s 2025 Person of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The magazine has bestowed its Person of the Year title annually since 1927, though it was formally called Man of the Year (or Woman of the Year) until 1999.<\/p>\n

Officially, the designation is reserved for \u201cthe person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse,\u201d according to the magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not always an actual person. And up until late Wednesday, online prediction markets had AI as the odds-on favorite for Time\u2019s 2025 Person of the Year.<\/p>\n

It would have been the third time that the magazine picked a non-human as its person of the year.\u00a0In 1982, the personal computer was selected as its \u201cMachine of the Year\u201d for its rapid transformation of society. In 1988, Time named \u201cEndangered Earth\u201d as its \u201cPlanet of the Year.\u201d\u00a0In 2006, the magazine picked \u201cYou\u201d as its Person of the Year for the \u201crevolution\u201d of early social media users as content creators. (The magazine\u2019s cover that year was a desktop computer.)<\/p>\n

AI has been on the minds of plenty of real people this year, and despite early optimism, many have expressed concern about potential dangers in the future.<\/p>\n

A recent Yahoo\/YouGov poll<\/a> found that a majority of Americans (53%) think artificial intelligence is likely to \u201cdestroy humanity\u201d someday. According to the survey, which was conducted in late October, 63% of Americans say it\u2019s somewhat or very likely that AI \u201cwill become so intellectually advanced that humans won\u2019t be able to control it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

And there appears to be a huge generation gap when it comes to interacting with AI.<\/p>\n

According to another recent Yahoo\/YouGov poll<\/a>, more than 8 in 10 Gen Z adults (82%) say they have used an AI chatbot such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Grok or Meta AI.<\/p>\n

Only 33% of their boomer parents and grandparents, however, can say the same. And while AI chatbot use is higher among Gen X-ers (54%) and millennials (68%), it\u2019s still nowhere near as ubiquitous as it is among so-called Zoomers.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Time announced the recipients of several other year-end honors, including Athlete of the Year<\/a> (WNBA star A\u2019ja Wilson), Entertainer of the Year<\/a> (Leonardo DiCaprio), CEO of the Year<\/a> (YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan) and Breakthrough of the Year<\/a> (the surprise hit film KPop Demon Hunters).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time magazine has unveiled its 2025 Person of the Year: The architects of AI. \u201c2025 was the year…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":440144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2341,691,65540,738,158,203187,201933,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-440143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-aja-wilson","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-ai-chatbot","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-the-architects-of-ai","14":"tag-time-magazine","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115701110742199945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}