AI Game Changers Named Time's Person of the Year!

Thu Dec 11 2025 18:01:19 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Recognizing the groundbreaking contributions to artificial intelligence, Time Magazine has awarded its Person of the Year honor collectively to the major innovators behind AI technologies. Who made the list this year?

Time Magazine has named the 'architects of artificial intelligence' as its Person of the Year for 2025, highlighting key figures such as Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), and Elon Musk (X). This choice reflects the tremendous impact AI is having on society, as the technology rapidly integrates into daily life. With the ongoing advancements since the launch of tools like ChatGPT, the magazine emphasizes AI's dual nature of promise and peril in shaping our future.

Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2025 is not a single person.

Instead, the magazine has recognized the year's most influential figure as the architects of artificial intelligence (AI).

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, Meta head Mark Zuckerberg, X owner Elon Musk, and AI godmother Fei-Fei Li are among those depicted on one of the magazine's two covers.

Experts say it highlights how quickly AI, and the firms behind it, are reshaping society.

It comes as a boom in the technology, ushered in by OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, continues at pace.

Its boss Sam Altman said in September its chatbot is used by around 800 million people every week.

Big tech firms are pouring billions of dollars into AI and the infrastructure behind it in a bid to stay ahead of rivals.

There are two covers this year - one a piece of art depicting the letters AI surrounded by workers, and another a painting focused on the tech leaders themselves.

At Meta, Zuckerberg has reportedly focused the firm around the tech, including its AI chatbot, which it has embedded in its popular apps.

He, along with Huang, Musk, Li and Altman, appeared on the cover alongside Lisa Su, boss of chipmaker AMD, Anthropic chief Dario Amodei, and Google's AI lab lead Sir Demis Hassabis.

This year, the debate about how to wield AI responsibly gave way to a sprint to deploy it as fast as possible, Time said as it announced its new covers.

Forrester analyst Thomas Husson said 2025 could be seen as a tipping point for how frequently AI is now used in our day-to-day lives.

Most consumers use it without even being aware of it. AI is now being crammed into hardware, software, and services - meaning its uptake is much faster than during the Internet or mobile revolutions.