Artificial intelligence architects named Time Magazine's People of the Year

The American weekly “Time” awarded this year's Person of the Year to a group of people it called artificial intelligence (AI) architects who are ushering in “the age of thinking machines and transformative technology,” the magazine's editorial staff reported on Thursday.

Sam Jacobs, editor-in-chief of Time, announced that this year the title went to a group of people who have had a “delightful and disturbing” impact on the fate of humanity and are able to “transform the present and exceed the boundaries of what is possible.”

The magazine's article mentions such figures as Nvidia executive Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, OpenAI founder and executive Sam Altman, AI researcher, engineer and head of AMD Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su, British entrepreneur and AI researcher Demis Hassabis, founder and head of Anthropic Dario Amodei, Chinese-American AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, and the AI investing executive of SoftBank Masayoshi Son.

Explaining their decision to award this year's title, the weekly's editorial staff wrote that in 2025, when global markets were shaken by the Chinese DeepSeek AI model, and shortly thereafter “technology titans Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son” announced in the White House that they would invest $500 billion in data centers in the US as part of the Stargate project, it became clear that “the full potential of artificial intelligence.”

Reuters reminds that “Time” belongs to a group of media that have started cooperation with AI companies, and in June 2024, the magazine signed a multi-year agreement with OpenAI, allowing the company that created ChatGPT to use its archived content. (PAP)

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