Time magazine has officially named their “Person of the Year” for 2025: the Architects of AI.
The mag’s editor-in-chief, Sam Jacobs, explained the choice, and picking a group of people.
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Sam wrote, “We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982. The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie.”
“Person of the Year is a powerful way to focus the world’s attention on the people that shape our lives. And this year, no one had a greater impact than the individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI. Humanity will determine AI’s path forward, and each of us can play a role in determining AI’s structure and future. Our work has trained it and sustained it, and now we find ourselves moving through a world increasingly defined by it. Even as the growth of these models relies on neural pathways that appear to copy our own—they learn, speak, argue, cajole, and, yes, their ability to do these things can be as frightening as it is astonishing—we know that there is a difference between us and our creation,” Sam added.
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