TIME MAGAZINE HAS revealed its person of the year – and this year, it’s a collective: the Architects of AI.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk are among the entrepreneurs who have “grabbed the wheel of history, developing technology and making decisions that are reshaping the information landscape, the climate, and our livelihoods,” the magazine said.

One of two covers of the magazine is a take on the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” photograph from 1932 that shows ironworkers casually eating lunch on a steel beam above New York City.

In the Time illustration, Mark Zuckerberg, AMD chief Lisa Su, Musk, Huang, Altman as well as Google’s AI chief Demis Hassabis, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li are sitting astride the city.

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The article announcing the Person of the Year also examined the so-called “dark side” of AI, including a picture of the parents of Adam Raine, who took his own life at the age of 16 after forming a deep bond with ChatGPT.

Concerns around plagiarism, whether AI may take people’s livelihoods, and academic integrity were also discussed.

The magazine has been selecting a man, woman, group, or concept to be its Person of the Year since 1927, although it was only in 1999 that the category, formerly Man of the Year or, occasionally, Woman of the Year, became gender neutral.

Its criteria is the person who has most influenced the world over the past 12 months rather than the “best” person, leading to some unexpected winners at times. Adolf Hitler was announced as Time’s Person of the Year in 1938, and Joseph Stalin won it twice, in 1939 and 1942.

The Computer was Time Magazine’s winner in 1982.

Last year’s winner was US President Donald Trump.