Time magazine announced the “architects of artificial intelligence,” the technology that has crept into the lives of many people around the world in 2025, as its person of the year on Thursday.

The publication shared images of its cover including one that featured tech and business leaders such as Elon Musk, leader of electric carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sitting on an iron beam high above the New York City skyline similar to the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s.

In another, the giant letters “AI” containing computer and other technology components are surrounded by scaffolding as workers appear to assemble the structure.

“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the p

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