Time Magazine has just named its Person of the Year for 2025.
And it’s not a single person. It is "the architects" of AI.
The magazine says "no one" had as great an impact this year than the people “who imagined, designed, and built AI".
This was the year that we stopped talking about how clunky AI is and instead started sprinting to deploy it as fast as possible. And now the risk-averse are no longer in the driver's seat.
Which may be true, but the risk averse are still a really big proportion of us, aren't they?
I think there are broadly three categories of people when it comes to AI;
1) The ones using it,
2) The ones apathetic about it and waiting to be convinced that they need it,
3) The ones terrified of it.
It's the terrified ones that fascinate me.
They're the unions convinced AI will take jobs. They're the 47% of Kiwis who don’t trust companies to use AI ethically. They're the rule-lovers who want the Government to set up more rules for AI.
They're the artists and musicians who are pretending that they can stop AI learning from (they call it stealing) their ideas. They're the people complaining that AI photos and videos and songs are somehow evil and misleading.
Resisting AI is not a strategy. It's happening and it’s not going away.
Resisting it is like a repeat of the resistance towards the computer decades ago, which even Time magazine called a fad at the end.
The way to deal with AI is to accept it's going to fundamentally change everything and then figure out how to make that work for you.
A case in point is Disney today giving OpenAI permission to use its characters, like Star Wars characters, to make videos.
Like Mark Cuban said on the show yesterday, AI is going to be big, and we have no idea how big yet.
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Episode Transcript
The Time magazine is just named its person of the
(00:02):
Year for twenty twenty five this morning, and it's not
a single person. It is the architects of AI. The
magazine says, no one has had as great an impact
this year than the people who designed, imagined, and built AI.
This was the year, the mag says, that we stopped
talking about how clunky AI is and instead started sprinting
to deploy it as fast as possible. And now quote
the risk averse are no longer in the driver's seat,
(00:24):
which is probably true, but I'll tell you what. The
risk averse is still a really big proportion of us,
aren't they. I mean, I think there are broadly three
categories of people when it comes to AI. You got
the ones using it. You've got the ones apathetic about
it and waiting to be convinced that they actually need it.
And then you've got the ones who are terrified of it.
And the terrified ones are the ones who fascinate me.
They're the unions convinced that AI are going to take
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the jobs. They are the forty seven percent of kiwis
who don't trust companies to use AI ethically. They're the
rule lovers who want the government to set up more
rules to protect us from AI. They're the artists and
the musicians who are pretending that AI can be stopped
from learning or what they call stealing their eye ideas.
The other people complaining that AI photos and AI videos
and AI songs are somehow evil and misleading. Resisting AI
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is not a strategy. AI is happening and it's not
going to go away. Resisting it feels a little bit
like a repeat of the resistance towards the computer thirty
forty years ago, which even Time magazine called a fad
back then, and then look where the computers are now.
The way to deal with AI is to accept that
it is going to fundamentally change everything and then figure
out how to make it work for you. And the
(01:27):
case in point today is Disney giving Open Ai permission
to use its characters like the Star Wars characters to
make videos. Like Mark Cuban said on the show yesterday,
AI is going to be big, and we actually have
no idea how big yet. For more from the Mic
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