Time magazine names its 2025 “Person of the Year” as the “Architects of AI,” how many times has it gone to a non-person

President Donald Trump was in the running to be named Time’s 2025 “Person of the Year,” however the magazine has now unveiled their winner. Time magazine took to X and said: “2025 was the year when artificial intelligence’s full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back.

“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year.”

When President Donald Trump was named TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year, he commented whilst ringing the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell and said: “Well, thank you very much. This is an honor, a tremendous honor.”

President Donald Trump also said: “I think I like it better this time, actually, because … but we did a good job. We had a great first term despite a lot of turmoil, caused unnecessarily.

“And, but the media is tamed down a little bit they’re, liking us much better now, I think, if they don’t, we’ll have to just take them on again and we don’t want to do that. But I do want to thank Time magazine.

“I’ve been on the cover many times. I don’t know who has a record, but I can only probably talk well, about 25% of the covers, 25% are great. The others I just sort of hide. But it’s been an honor. And every time it’s an honor, I will tell you and thank you very much for doing it.”

Taylor Swift was named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2023 and she told the publication that "This is the proudest and happiest I've ever felt, and the most creatively fulfilled and free I've ever been.

"Ultimately, we can convolute it all we want, or try to overcomplicate it, but there's only one question: Are you not entertained?"

Who were the frontrunners for TIME’S 2025 “Person of the Year?”

The frontrunners included President Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV, Zelenskyy and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

How many times has TIME’S Person of the Year gone to a non-person?

The computer, “Machine of the Year,” was named as Time’s Person of the Year in 1982 and in 1988, Endangered Earth was named.

USA Today reported that “Over the years, many classes of people have been named, including The American Fighting-Man, U.S. Scientists, the Baby Boom generation, the Apollo 8 astronauts, the Middle Americans (conservative small-town residents), American women, the whistleblowers who helped expose the corruption in WorldCom and Enron, the American soldier, the Good Samaritans (organizers behind the 2005 Live 8 concerts), protestors around the world in 2011, Ebola fighters, women who spoke up during the MeToo movement, journalists who faced persecution, and the Spirit of Ukraine.”