2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back.
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— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2025
The “Architects of AI” have been named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year for 2025.
The magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with no turning back.
“For 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’s 2025 Person of the Year,” TIME announced.
The magazine states: “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.”
TIME’s 10 most-recent recipients of Person of the Year:
The Architects of AI — 2025
Donald Trump — 2024
Taylor Swift — 2023
Volodymyr Zelenskyy — 2022
Elon Musk — 2021
Joe Biden & Kamala Harris — 2020
Greta Thunberg — 2019
The Guardians — 2018
The Silence Breakers — 2017
Donald…— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 11, 2025