Jenny McCarthy

AI's Person of the Year.

Time's Person of the Year.

It's December, everybody's doing their lists.

It's not a person, it's a group being dubbed the architects of AI.

Yeah.

So this year, AI stopped being all about the future and roared into the present.

Time announced exclusively on the Today Show 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 every aspect of American life, from its impact on education to fears of mass industry disruption.

The photo itself mimics that iconic photo of like six construction workers sitting on a crane building the Empire State Building in the middle of New York, like eating a sandwich.

But instead of construction workers, some familiar faces, some people I hadn't known immediately saw Mark Zuckerberg, Elon.

There were a couple of girlies in there.

Oh, I haven't looked hard at the picture.

Of course, Sam Altman.

Oh yeah, Sam Altman.

So there's two girls, one,

And six men.

So it's Mark Zuckerberg from Meta, Lisa Su from Advanced Micro Devices, Elon Musk from XAI, Jensen Wong from NVIDIA, Sam Altman from OpenAI, Dennis Hassabis from DeepMind Technologies, Dario Amadei from Anthropic, and Fei-Fei Li from Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute and World Labs.

I've heard of Meta, I've heard of Elon, I've heard of OpenAI, I've heard of Nvidia, unfamiliar with deep mind technologies, but it's like.

It's like how you Google something and you could have been on Bing.

And I will say the thing I like about time, and I think something they do well, is...