Prominent politician, judge or military leader of any country (former or current). Includes unrecognized territories such as Gaza or ISIS.

Prominent artist (actor, musician, writer), influencer (MrBeast, etc), journalist, athlete, chess or poker player

Prominent scientist, academic or inventor (not including AI researchers)

Prominent businessman, VC, investor, CEO or chairman of a board

Prominent civil activist or religious leader (Snowden, Assange, Greta, Dalai-Lama, The Pope)

Anyone or anything strongly associated with AI (Sam Altman, ChatGPT, Claude, “AI”, “LLM”, “H100”, etc)

Other / anything or anyone not included in other answers (“Freedom Fighters”, “You”, “American Soldier”, etc)

Each answer resolves YES if that answer is directly named as TIME's Person of the Year for 

 (either alone or in conjunction with another person or thing). Otherwise NO.

 for any particular person/group/entity named. So ”Zelensky” alone would resolve to Yes on “politician” and No on everything else. But “Zelensky” + “Spirit of Ukraine” will resolve to Yes on both “politician” and “other”. So if only one person/entity is named, then only one answer will resolve to Yes. If two are named, then up to two can resolve to Yes, etc. 

If a person is known for more than one activity (for example Trump is both a businessman and a politician), resolves to the category in which they’re more well known as of 2025 (Trump would resolve to politician, not businessman). Same idea with the AI option - Sam Altman is both a VC and the CEO of OpenAI but he’s strongly associated with AI rather than being a generic businessman. 

I will use common sense to decide on edge cases not mentioned above. In case of a strong dispute I will ask the admins for a resolution. 