'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2025 is not a single person. Instead, the magazine has recognised the year's most influential figure as the architects of artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, Meta head Mark Zuckerberg, X owner Elon Musk and AI godmother Fei-Fei Li are among those depicted on one of the magazine's two covers. Experts say it highlights how quickly AI, and the firms behind it, are reshaping society. It comes as a boom in the technology, ushered in by OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, continues at pace.

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It's often seen as a taboo subject, but one scientist is finally lifting the lid on our sex lives - and what 2025 has in store for them. Dr Olivia Lee, the Relationship Scholar in Residence at Doll Authority, has revealed the seven sex trends set to encapsulate the year ahead. Speaking to MailOnline, she said: 'From fashion to travel, many of us are eagerly anticipating the trends that may – whether we realise it or not – influence our choices throughout the year. 'However, it doesn't end there; several exciting and unexpected sex trends are also on the horizon, and it looks like 2025 is going to be very kinky.' Several of Dr Lee's predictions are based on the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) - including AI sexting, and AI-enhanced sex dolls.

'Let's just say this is a very significant redesign of society,' said Mo Gawdat, the former chief business officer at Google's secretive R&D wing, Google X. The convergence of these technologies, as Gawdat explained on a recent podcast interview, may lead to sex dolls that seem'alive' or dating apps filled with AI'avatars.' 'If we think a few years further and think of Neuralink and other ways of connecting directly to your nervous system,' Gawdat speculated, 'why would you need another being in the first place?' Speaking on the YouTube channel for the show Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Gawdat pointed out that technologists, policymakers and society at large often focus too tightly on philosophical questions that big business interests will not. 'We get lost in those conversations of'Are they alive?

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In a plain factory building in the San Marcos hills, north of San Diego in California, a technological revolution is under way. There, a team of AI experts are developing a new brand of woman that can smile, flutter her eyelids, make small-talk and remember the names of your siblings. Harmony – for that is her name – is a cut above your average sex doll. More than merely a masturbatory aid, she is a friend, lover and potential life partner. In Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, Jenny Kleeman examines the innovations that promise to change the way we love, eat, reproduce and die in the future. "What you are about to read is not science fiction," she warns in her preface.

A scientist and a researcher, Brian Roemelle, once said that artificial intelligence is the electricity of the future. And it is difficult to disagree, for AI has a huge impact on many industries right now -- from banking to auto. But have you ever thought how AI works for a sextech? Great changes are happening right now, and although you may not even notice it, your sex experience is getting better. The sex industry is booming -- people accept themselves and their bodies, some of them open out, some start experimenting, and some identify themselves as digisexuals (people whose primary sexual identity comes through the use of technology -- they don't need other people to have sex to).

A scientist and a researcher, Brian Roemelle, once said that artificial intelligence is the electricity of the future. And it is difficult to disagree, for AI has a huge impact on many industries right now -- from banking to auto. But have you ever thought how AI works for a sextech? Great changes are happening right now, and although you may not even notice it, your sex experience is getting better. The sex industry is booming -- people accept themselves and their bodies, some of them open out, some start experimenting, and some identify themselves as digisexuals (people whose primary sexual identity comes through the use of technology -- they don't need other people to have sex to).

The findings were discussed at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Seattle on Friday. Sex robots integrate artificial intelligence and traditional as well as novel technologies that may result in widely unknown and unpredictable risks. Scientists are concerned these sex robots (or love dolls) are being designed to look like children or even programmed to protest and simulate a rape scenario. According to tech expert Chris Riddell, stricter regulation of sex robots is needed immediately, "otherwise it's going to be the wild west." "Until now, we've only had human-to-human relationships. We're heading into an era where humans are having relationships with technology systems, and that's disturbing us," Riddell told 10 daily.

Artificial intelligence is developing in unprecedented ways and its future is unpredictable. Facebook announced recently that they had to deactivate one of their systems for an unheard of reason: it had begun to think for itself. The system developed its own language and tech experts still aren't sure how. Although this particular case got a lot of publicity, it isn't the only one that we've seen in recent years. In the past, other AI developers have seen some machines try to do things by themselves.