《时代》年度人物：他们为什么坐在钢梁上？

当地时间12月11日，美国《时代》杂志宣布，“人工智能的缔造者（the architects of AI）”当选2025年度人物。

Time magazine is spotlighting key players in the artificial intelligence revolution for its 2025 Person of the Year, the magazine announced Thursday. "The architects of AI" are the latest recipients of the designation, which for more than a century has been given out on an annual basis to an influential person, group of people or, occasionally, a defining cultural theme or idea.

这一奖项已有百余年历史，每年授予对全球产生深远影响的个人或群体，偶尔也会授予具有时代意义的理念或文化现象。历届得主横跨政治、科技、文化等领域：去年是美国总统唐纳德·川普，前年则是歌手泰勒·斯威夫特。

今年，《时代》的这一荣誉授予了人工智能崛起背后的思想家和金融家，包括英伟达CEO黄仁勋、软银CEO孙正义和百度CEO李彦宏，他们也在最新一期中接受了专访。

In 2025, Time's 2025 honorific was given to the minds and financiers behind AI's rise to renown and notoriety, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son and Baidu CEO Robin Li, who spoke directly with the magazine for its feature story.

该杂志为这期内容准备了两个不同的封面。其一由艺术家杰森·塞勒创作，重新诠释了1932年的经典摄影作品《摩天大楼顶上的午餐》——原作中，工人们肩并肩坐在纽约上空悬吊的钢梁上，正在建设洛克菲勒中心30号大楼。

The magazine prepared two separate covers for the issue. In one, artist Jason Seiler painted an interpretative recreation of the iconic 1932 photograph "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper", an image that depicted workers seated side-by-side on a steel beam hanging high above New York City during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, which became a symbol of American resilience during the Great Depression.

在塞勒的版本里，钢梁上的身影被换成了一群处于人工智能发展前沿的科技行业人物：Meta的马克·扎克伯格、AMD的苏姿丰、xAI的埃隆·马斯克、OpenAI的山姆·奥特曼、DeepMind的德米斯·哈萨比斯、Anthropic的达里奥·阿莫迪，以及斯坦福大学以人为本人工智能研究所的李飞飞，还有英伟达CEO黄仁勋。他们组成了象征“AI时代建设者”的群像。

第二幅封面由艺术家彼得·克劳瑟绘制。画面中，同样一批科技高管站在脚手架旁，像是在一座以“AI”为蓝图的建筑工地上忙碌。

The second cover illustration, by artist Peter Crowther, places the same executives among scaffolding at what looks like a construction site for the giant letters "AI".

《时代》主编萨姆·雅各布斯在社论中写道，“年度人物”旨在让世界关注那些正在塑造时代的人，而在2025年，没有谁的影响力能比构想、设计并推动人工智能发展的这些人更大。他将2025年形妊酞“人工智能潜力全面释放的一年，也是一个没有回头路、无法旁观的节点”，并写道：“无论问题是什么，人工智能都是答案。”

"Person of the Year is a powerful way to focus the world's attention on the people that shape our lives," wrote Sam Jacobs, Time's editor-in-chief, in an editorial piece about the magazine's decision. "And this year, no one had a greater impact than the individuals who imagined, designed, and built AI."

Jacobs described 2025 as "the year when artificial intelligence's full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back or opting out," adding: "Whatever the question was, AI was the answer."

《时代》的评选结果也收到了反对意见。“《时代》杂志评选的‘年度人物’是肆意践踏知识产权、让我们再也无法相信自己眼睛的窃贼。视频、照片、艺术和文字都受到了生成式人工智能的侵蚀，这些技术对社会毫无益处，却让寡头们更加富有。”奇幻小说作家布伦达·诺贝尔在社交平台X上表示。

2025年，人工智能经常成为调查新闻报道 、经济和学术研究以及政界的焦点，政策制定者努力寻找如何监管其发展的方式，而科技巨头则争先恐后地超越竞争对手的技术，其中一些技术如聊天机器人的使用变得越来越普遍，有时甚至会带来悲剧性的后果 。

AI often took center stage in 2025 in investigative news reports, economic and academic studies, and in Washington, D.C., as policymakers grappled with how to regulate its evolution while tech giants scrambled to trump their competitors' inventions, as the use of some of them, like chatbots, grew to be commonplace, at times with tragic consequences.

“基于这些原因，我们认可这股力量，它无论好坏，都主导了今年的新闻头条。”雅各布斯在社论中写道，“人工智能的缔造者们开启了机器思考的时代，令世人惊叹又担忧，他们改变了现在并超越了可能性，因此，《时代》杂志将2025年度人物评选为人工智能的缔造者。”

"For these reasons, we recognize a force that has dominated the year's headlines, for better or for worse," Jacobs wrote in his editorial. "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."

不过，也有人批评《时代》杂志赞扬的是科技公司的首席执行官，而不是“真正构建人工智能的工程师和研究人员”。“你们把‘人工智能缔造者’评为年度人物，但封面人物却是CEO们。”一名网友在X上写道，“如果说谁配得上这个称号，那应该是人工智能本身或者背后的开发者，而不是一群迎合市场营销的面孔。”