This year artificial intelligence stopped being all about the future and roared into the present.

Time announced exclusively on TODAY Dec. 11 that it has recognized AI’s seismic impact by naming the “Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year . The recognition reflects how the technology seemingly became inescapable this year in just about any aspect of American life, from its impact on education to fears of mass industry disruption.

“This is the year we feel like the people who were designing, imagining and building artificial intelligence stopped debating about how to create this technology and started racing to deploy it, and there are enormous consequences for society,” Time Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs told Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin on TODAY.

In its cover story, Time

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