Who will be TIME's 2025 Person of the Year?
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Dec 11
33%
Other
16%
[Whoever is elected Pope after Francis]
13%
[Any variation of Artificial Intelligence]
10%
Elon Musk
7%
Sam Altman
7%
Donald Trump and/or JD Vance
6%
[Any variation of "The Courts"]
4%
Xi Jinping
2%
AOC

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%.

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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]?

bought Ṁ5 YES

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

bought Ṁ150 NO

@bens added

bought Ṁ250 YES

I'm feeling extremely confident it'll be whoever is named the new pope. I've made a market for it:

Kendrick Lamar. Like c'mon, he won at the Grammys and then played the Super Bowl in the same week. That's gotta count for something.

bought Ṁ50 YES

Elon Musk and Gavin Newsom seem like plausible adds here, imo

Snoop dogg

Can we have "the president-elect (with or without vp-elect)" as a consolidated option, so that this market doesn't just become another "who will win" market?

@MattLashofSullivan That's a great suggestion! Add it!

@Joshua shoot i misread the question and thought we were talking about 2024 :(

@MattLashofSullivan No it's still a good answer! The newly elected president is sometimes the POTY the year after they are elected. Oh, I'll edit it to "the person elected president in 2024" to b clear to others though.

I'd like to nominate strikers/unions as a group

I'd like to nominate Jerome Powell

I'd like to nominate Pope Francis (or a new pope if one exists)

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