Who will be TIME's 2025 Person of the Year?
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10kṀ78k
Dec 11
37%
Other
28%
Robert Prevost / Pope Leo XIV
9%
Donald Trump and/or JD Vance
9%
[Any variation of Artificial Intelligence]
7%
Elon Musk
4%
Xi Jinping
3%
[Any variation of "The Courts"]
2%
Sam Altman

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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  • 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.

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

Can you add "You"

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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"

@Joshua you can change the pope one to “Robert Prevost / Pope Leo XIV” if you’re so inclined

bought Ṁ50 YES

@bens what if there's a different Pope before the times article comes out?

bought Ṁ50 NO

I have a small pp

Please clarify if, should a specific judge win, that would count as "the courts"

@digory Yes I think that should count.

bought Ṁ3 YES

Does "The courts" include all specific judges?

Can you add Nayib Bukele?

He’s had a profile in Time before so he’s on their radar. Naming him would be a way of drawing attention to the deportations by the Trump administration, while staying within the format of naming an individual.

@OP i would go into so much debt to buy every single cent of NO for that lol

Can you add Kilmar Abrego Garcia?

bought Ṁ9 YES

@JoshuaWilkes I propose a consolidated "The Migrant" or "People who have been deported"

@Marnix ya I think the odds of Garcia being TIME POTY are vanishingly small, but perhaps a broader category like that might be reasonable

@bens @Joshua maybe something like [Any variation of Immigrants / Migrants / Deportees]?

@bens I'm in favor of it being this broad. If they went this direction I feel like it'd make sense for them to focus both on people who have been deported AND people who are still in the United States.

bought Ṁ5 YES

Hey @Joshua could we add AOC perhaps, and the Pope after he's elected?

bought Ṁ150 NO

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