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AI 'architects' are TIME magazine's Person of the Year

TIME  magazine has announced its 2025 Person of the Year. The annual award goes to a group of people: the "architects of  AI". The accolade is bestowed on "the 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". Some of these architects appear on TIME's two cover photos. They include the CEOs of Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Tesla. TIME said the technology magnates brought about "one of the biggest physical infrastructure projects of all time." It described 2025 as the year that AI "roared into view," showing its world-changing potential.

TIME's editor-in-chief, Sam Jacobs, commented on the decision to recognize the AI architects. He wrote: "It was hard to read or watch anything without being confronted with news about the rapid advancement of a technology and the people driving it. Those stories unleashed a million debates about how disruptive AI would be for our lives. No business leader could talk about the future without invoking the impact of this technological revolution. No parent or teacher could ignore how their teenager or student was using it." He also noted the "trade-offs" associated with AI. These included vast energy requirements, job losses, the proliferation of misinformation, and cyberattacks.

 

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Talk about these words from the article.  

magazines / Person of the Year / architects / AI / CEOs / technology / infrastructure / editor / decision / news / debates / the future / revolution / job losses / cyberattacks 

 

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True / False

1) The TIME Person of the Year is the person who invented AI.  T / F

2) The Person of the Year is only for people who have benefitted the world.  T / F

3) TIME said magnets were responsible for infrastructure projects.  T / F

4) TIME said 2025 is the year AI showed its potential to change the world.  T / F

5) An editor at TIME suggested news of AI was pretty much ubiquitous.  T / F

6) The editor said he wanted one million debates on AI.  T / F

7) The editor said parents could not ignore how teenagers were using AI.  T / F

8) The editor suggested a downside to AI was the energy it required.  T / F 

 

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Discussion

1) What do you think about what you read?

2) What recent news have you read about AI?

3) How will AI disrupt our lives?

4) How should students be using AI?

5) What do you think of AI leading to job losses?

6) How can we protect jobs from being lost because of AI?

7) What impact is AI having on what we see online?

8) What questions would you like to ask a tech CEO?