President Donald Trump has lost his Time Person of the Year crown to a band of his billionaire pals. Trump was selected in 2024 for the historic acknowledgment after winning his second term in the White House. Now he’s been ousted by a selection of tycoons dubbed “the architects” of the breakthrough year for artificial intelligence. Included in the lineup are Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, AMD boss Lisa Su, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta leader Mark Zuckerberg, X’s Elon Musk, and Google’s Demis Hassabis. Announcing the winners, Time said, “This year, the debate about how to wield AI responsibly gave way to a sprint to deploy it as fast as possible. But the risk-averse are no longer in the driver’s seat... humanity is now flying down the highway, all gas no brakes, toward a highly automated and highly uncertain future.” Person of the Year has featured in Time since 1927, 95 years before Altman released ChatGPT in 2022 and 98 years before the program reached 800 million users a week. Musk and Zuckerberg have been regular faces in the court of Trump, although Musk is now out in the cold after an explosive breakdown in relations over policy differences.
