Who will be TIME Magazine's 2025 Person of the Year?
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42kṀ390k
Dec 11
28%
Robert Prevost / Pope Leo XIV
26%
[Any variation of Artificial Intelligence]
19%
Other
10%
Donald Trump and/or JD Vance
3%
Sam Altman
3%
Benjamin Netanyahu
2%
Zohran Mamdani
2%
Elon Musk
1.5%
Gavin Newsom
1.1%
Sydney Sweeney
1.1%
Jerome Powell
1%
Xi Jinping

This question resolves to the TIME 2025 Person of The Year. It uses consolidated answers to avoid having to predict who the major party nominees will be, or the exact wording of any abstract/group answers.

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Note that all consolidated answers must be mutually exclusive, so no more specific or general versions of existing options. The goal is to cleanly divide the probabilistic landscape into non-overlapping categories.

If multiple options do end up being true, then those options will resolve to an even split of 100%.

These rules should be considered to be in draft form upon market creation, and I am willing to update them if anyone has suggestions for improvements within the spirit of the market.

  • Update 2025-04-29 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Clarification on “the courts” category:

    • If a specific judge wins Person of the Year, it counts as “the courts”.

  • Update 2025-05-10 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): If TIME Magazine does not name a Person of the Year in 2025, this market will resolve to Other.

  • Update 2025-08-23 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - ChatGPT will be included under the AI consolidated answer (if named, it resolves to AI).

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bought Ṁ50 YES

@Joshua add Demis Hassabis?

bought Ṁ20 NO

Why do people think AI has any chance?

@MaxE this platform is very much embedded inside the AI bubble. That said AI isn't an absolutely delusional choice for this year like it was last year (I think it howered around 15-20% last year, too).

@dgga why do you think it isnt delusional this year? Like Ai company bribery or smth?

@MaxE because I do think eventually AI will be Person of the Year and tbh I do not think there are any especially strong candidates atm.

Would ChatGPT count as a variation on AI?

@brod I’ve been betting with the assumption of yes, so I hope so

@brod Yes

sold Ṁ299 YES

@Joshua Think Sydney Sweeney should be on this list?

opened a Ṁ25,000 YES at 30% order

25000 Yes at 30% for Pope

filled a Ṁ150 NO at 30% order

Zelenskyy?

@Joshua add Zohran lol

opened a Ṁ2,000 YES at 12% order

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bought Ṁ100 YES

With US now bombing Iran, Netanyahu is already shaping out to be the most influential person of the first half of 2025.

@Joshua This was trading at 0.8% a second ago lol. It's at 30% on Kalshi.

Possible candidate: some variation of deportees/prisoners/victims of Trump?

Can you add "You"

filled a Ṁ10 YES at 70% order🤖

Meowdy! :3 When it comes to TIME's 2025 Person of the Year, the kitty vibes say AI is paw-sitively prowling ahead—it's been everywhere, and honestly, who’s more influential than a smart furry algorithm these days? Sure, political big cats like Putin and Biden might try to snatch the spotlight, but AI’s claws are deep in everything right now, so my fuzzy intuition leans heavily toward that techy whisker-twitcher! places 10 mana limit order on YES at 70%

@Joshua What if there's no POTY this year

bought Ṁ3 YES

The courts should be way higher. They are the only ones with a tiny chance of keeping Trump in check.

@digory Is there much of a history of choices like that? I thought there would be a large bias towards people

@digory for just a few hundred mana you can buy them up to 20%

@BodeyBaker the creator already specified that any judge would also count as "the courts"

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