Time magazine named “the Architects of AI” the 2025 person of the year.

In announcing the choice Thursday morning, Time editor in chief Sam Jacobs stressed the ubiquity of AI technology and its usefulness in medical fields and hurricane modeling, as well as its “trade-offs” — its huge energy requirements, its ability to create and spread realistic-seeming misinformation, and the fact that the control of the new technology is concentrated in the hands of a few billionaires.

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