Neil Freiman

Time magazine released its 2025 person of the year yesterday.

And gosh, Toby, you were so close.

Instead, the organization went with architects of AI, including NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, AMD's Lisa Su, and Fei-Fei Li, known as the godmother of AI.

Time editor in chief Sam Jacob said, person of the year is a powerful way to focus the world's attention on the people that shape our lives.

And this year, no one had a greater impact than the individuals who imagined, designed and built AI.

Time magazine stresses that its person of the year award isn't an endorsement of their actions, just the quote person or persons who most affected the news and our lives for good or ill and embodied what was important about the year for better or for worse.

And with AI, Time highlighted the better and the worse.

In terms of the benefits, they said AI could facilitate communication with whales, crush existing hurricane prediction models, and lead to medical breakthroughs that save lives.

At the same time, AI guzzles energy, threatens jobs, enables cyber attacks, and obliterates our sense of reality.

Furthermore, it's being controlled by a small concentration of ultra-wealthy business leaders, the same people it deemed their people of the year.

Right choice, Toby?

If you bet on AI and you resolve to no, then you are pissed, and there were a lot of social media comments about that.

And yes, every major event these days has an A plot and a B plot.

The A plot is what actually happened, and then the B plot is what is going down on prediction markets because there's always so much speculation.

controversy.

Let's talk about the A-plot a little bit, the architects of AI.

Time magazine said this was third in a series that captured key moments of technological revolution over the past half century.

In 1982, their person of the year was the personal computer.

and they highlighted Steve Jobs and talked about this as being a computing revolution.

And then in 2006, I don't know if you all remember this, Times Person of the Year was you.