Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel didn’t hold back when reacting to Time magazine’s 2025 Person of the Year cover, immediately slamming the eight tech CEOs featured as “the eight dorks of the apocalypse.” Kimmel kicked off his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with a dramatic reveal, making it clear he wasn’t happy with the magazine’s selection or the overall execution of the piece. The magazine titled the massive group the “Architects of AI,” but Kimmel and his studio audience were definitely not buying the celebratory tone.
When he unveiled the winners, the crowd actually booed the decision, prompting Kimmel to quip that he was “expecting more enthusiasm” for the tech titans. You’re looking at a lineup that includes some truly massive names in the industry, like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, xAI’s Elon Musk, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, just to name a few of the more recognizable faces. The full list also featured 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.
