TIME names the 'Architects of AI' as its 2025 Person of the Year
Summary
TIME magazine selected the 'Architects of AI'—key figures behind modern AI systems—as its 2025 Person of the Year, highlighting how tools like ChatGPT and frontier models have reshaped the global economy, politics and daily life. The package and global TV coverage emphasize both the boom in AI investment and deployment and mounting anxieties over misinformation, job disruption and concentrated tech power. ([time.com](https://time.com/7339685/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects/))
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