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Will there be a positive transition to a world with radically smarter-than-human artificial intelligence?

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"AI may cause the most dramatic and sustained economic boom of all time."

AI will make the world "way wealthier" and lead to a "productivity boom."

AI is an "amplifier of human intelligence" and will help the economy thrive.

AI will enable "universal high income" in place of "universal basic income."

"AI may become the heart of future economic growth in the coming decades."

AI harms could include "disrupting economies."

AI could "disrupt job markets."

"AI and technological unemployment" are the "biggest problem we face" from an "economic point of view."

"The moment superintelligent AI emerges, the human economy will end."

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"[T]here will be far greater jobs" thanks to AI and "the jobs of today will get better."

AI will probably "take over a lot of jobs," but could also "create new kinds of jobs"

"[W]e might witness the creation of a massive new unworking class."

AI "is not going to put a lot of people out of work permanently" but work will change.

AI might take away more than just "drudge work."

"AI software will be in direct competition with a lot of people for jobs."

"Automation and AI will take away pretty much all of our jobs."

Eventually, "AI will be able to do everything" and jobs will exist only for "personal satisfaction."

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Time magazine announced on Dec. 11 that it named the Architects of AI as its 2025 Person of the Year, recognizing the individuals who imagined, designed and built artificial intelligence technology that transformed society this year.

Time magazine announced on Dec. 11 that it named the Architects of AI as its 2025 Person of the Year, recognizing the individuals who imagined, designed and built artificial intelligence technology that transformed society this year.

Time featured two covers for its 2025 Person of the Year issue, with one depicting eight tech leaders seated on a steel beam in homage to the 1932 Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph and another showing the letters AI under construction surrounded by scaffolding.

Time featured two covers for its 2025 Person of the Year issue, with one depicting eight tech leaders seated on a steel beam in homage to the 1932 Lunch atop a Skyscraper photograph and another showing the letters AI under construction surrounded by scaffolding.

The eight tech leaders featured on one Time cover include Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Lisa Su of AMD, Elon Musk of xAI, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Demis Hassabis of DeepMind Technologies, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Fei-Fei Li of Stanford and World Labs.

The eight tech leaders featured on one Time cover include Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Lisa Su of AMD, Elon Musk of xAI, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Demis Hassabis of DeepMind Technologies, Dario Amodei of Anthropic and Fei-Fei Li of Stanford and World Labs.

Time Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs stated that 2025 marked the year when people building artificial intelligence stopped debating how to create the technology and started racing to deploy it, with enormous consequences for society including concerns about energy consumption and job losses.

Time Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs stated that 2025 marked the year when people building artificial intelligence stopped debating how to create the technology and started racing to deploy it, with enormous consequences for society including concerns about energy consumption and job losses.

President Donald Trump announced the Stargate Project the day after his January inauguration, with tech leaders pledging up to $500 billion to build AI data centers around the country, with funders including SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia and Microsoft.

President Donald Trump announced the Stargate Project the day after his January inauguration, with tech leaders pledging up to $500 billion to build AI data centers around the country, with funders including SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia and Microsoft.

Time has previously recognized technological revolutions by naming the personal computer as Machine of the Year in 1982 and You as Person of the Year in 2006 for the rise of digital communities and content creators, with the 2025 selection marking the third such recognition.

Time has previously recognized technological revolutions by naming the personal computer as Machine of the Year in 1982 and You as Person of the Year in 2006 for the rise of digital communities and content creators, with the 2025 selection marking the third such recognition.

Time Names AI Architects as 2025 Person of the Year

Time Names AI Architects as 2025 Person of the Year

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