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Welcome to the explanation from the BBC World Service.
This is Rosakins and Katie Razzle, and this is The Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast-changing media landscape.
This week we're going to look back on 2025, and one story in particular, artificial intelligence.
Time magazine this month named the architects of AI as their person of the year.
Usually that title is reserved for an individual.
And on the media show, over the last 12 months, we too have been profiling a group of people,
mostly men, who now wield an extraordinary level of influence over the future of society.
But how much do we actually know about them?
Let's try and help with that.
And we'll begin with our profile of the man who, in 2025,
became perhaps the most well-known of the AI tech bros.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind chat GPT.
And to help us understand his origins,
we spoke to Mike Isaac, technology correspondent at The New York Times.
Honestly,
his trajectory was very similar to a lot of the big CEO popular mythology and founding stories out here,
which has moved out to California to go to Stanford,