Jimmy Kimmel calls Time’s ‘Architects of AI’ the ‘eight dorks of the apocalypse’

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ripped into Time Journal’s 2025 Particular person of the 12 months cowl with the “Architects of AI,” referring to the eight-person lineup of tech CEOs as “the eight dorks of the apocalypse.”

Kimmel kicked off Thursday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” with a dramatic unveiling of Time’s Particular person of the 12 months, criticizing not solely the selection of winners but additionally the general design of the quilt – which he mentioned resembled ‘2007 Photoshop’. The quilt featured Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, xAI’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, AMD’s Lisa Su, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Fei-Fei Li of Stanford and World Labs.

“Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and 5 different loopy tech sisters and brothers, the architects of AI, are the Particular person of the 12 months,” Kimmel revealed to his viewers, who cheered in response.

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Time Journal’s 2025 Particular person of the 12 months cowl featured on “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” on Thursday, December 11, 2025. (Display recording/ABC)

The late-night host joked that he anticipated “extra enthusiasm” from the viewers earlier than persevering with to berate the “Architects of AI.”

‘They name them architects. And I ponder: Is it widespread for an architect to do not know how a constructing he designed works and whether or not or not it is going to at some point stand up and attempt to kill them?’ he requested.

A typical concern amongst critics of synthetic intelligence (AI) is that the expertise will finally take over jobs at present carried out by people. Kimmel supported that concept, noting the irony of “the individuals changing individuals” successful this yr’s Particular person of the 12 months award.

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Kimmel shifted his focus to the quilt artwork, telling the present’s producers to “simply put that cowl again” so he might get again to it.

“Satirically, what I am saying is that regardless that you are able to do graphics with AI, it seems to be like Photoshop from 2007,” he snapped.

This photograph illustration exhibits the American weekly information journal and information web site Time emblem on a smartphone with a synthetic intelligence (AI) chip and image within the background. (Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs)

In keeping with Time, digital painter Jason Seiler’s work “pays tribute to the well-known 1932 photograph of building employees on a metal beam 800 ft above the RCA Constructing in New York Metropolis.”

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AI and its numerous purposes have taken the world by storm, with many predicting important adjustments on the horizon because the expertise advances and permeates society.

“Due to Huang, [SoftBank’s Masayoshi] Son, Altman and different AI titans, humanity is now flying down the freeway, throttleless and brakeless, towards a extremely automated and extremely unsure future.” Time wrote.

Final yr, the newspaper named then-President-elect Donald Trump as Particular person of the 12 months for 2024.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a reception on the New York Inventory Trade (NYSE) after being named TIME’s “Particular person of the 12 months” for the second time on December 12, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photographs)

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Alex Nitzberg of Fox Information contributed to this report.