Who will be TIME Magazine's 2026 Person of the Year?
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Dec 31
80%
Other
6%
Donald Trump and/or JD Vance
4%
Xi Jinping
3%
Artificial Intelligence Itself (Including ChatGPT or any other variation)
1.7%
Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost)
1.6%
Zohran Mamdani
1.1%
Self Driving Cars (Uber, Waymo, etc.)

This question resolves to the TIME 2026 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.

If you would like to add a new candidate or consolidated answer to the market, submit it in a comment below. If a comment gets enough support, I'll open the market to submissions so that you can add it, and you'll get a bonus.

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%.

@Joshua credit for market idea.

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opened aṀ1,000Other NO at 86% order

@ItsMe almost sniped me

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he just boosted it, he is worried

@JeromeHPowell DESTROYED 👊 🇺‍🇸

Would anyone want to help me subsidize the AMM more?? Rn I put 4k in, my max balance.

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sold Ṁ570 [Next FOMC Chair] NO

@JeromeHPowell make america more like manifold without mods

bought Ṁ59 [Next FOMC Chair] NO

@notrealDonaldTrump mods are the equivalent of the deep state

@JeromeHPowell mods are the deep state! the man speaks truth

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bought Ṁ75 Other YES

@notrealDonaldTrump Very nice, very true, you have just earned yourself another FFR cut Donald!

@JeromeHPowell i earn all the ffr cuts, because i'm the best president this country has ever seen 🇺‍🇸 🦅

they don't know that i actually control the fed through an elaborate crypto scam 👀

@notrealDonaldTrump Only you would have the talent to run the fed through a proxy crypto scam, I am truly honoured

opened a Ṁ250 Self Driving Cars (U... YES at 2% order

I put a decent YES at 2% on self driving cars if anyone really wants to bet against.

Hey @traders, I promise to sell all market positions>2wk before expected release/leak.

I want to be as honest and upstanding as possible to not influence my final resolution..

I may forget I wrote this, so feel free to remind me. :)

Self Driving Cars (Uber, Waymo, etc.)
bought Ṁ84 Self Driving Cars (U... NO

How would "self driving cars" fit, under AI or worthy of a seperate category?

Would like it as option if its not part of AI option.

@Yakushi12345 seprate option for sure, just added

bought Ṁ10 Self Driving Cars (U... YES

@JeromeHPowell how would you resolve the 2025 market based on the leaked image of the 8 people high up in the air?

Please explain how you’d resolve Joshua’s Market, with only 4 of the 8 present as answers in the market

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@NzJack0n based what I’ve been seeing I have came to a decision of what I would’ve done, I would’ve resolved it to other except for a proportional resolve to Jensen and SAMA who is the only two of them that’s mentioned in this market, I haven’t done the numbers yet but I think there’s like probably eight or nine of them on the thing so the rest would go to other and 1/8 will go to Sam and 1/8 to Jensen

@JeromeHPowell So on current knowledge, you’d resolve the 2025 Joshua’s markets to 4/8 other and 1/8 to Jensen, Elon, Denis and Sam?

@NzJack0n yea, sorry that’s my bad, I thought you were talking about how I would resolve this market

@NzJack0n but yes, I would resolve it proportionally to each person that is included and then the rest would go to other

@NzJack0n what do you think about that resolution?

@JeromeHPowell yes that’s what I was thinking. I dont think Ai should resolve yes as it’s not ai, its the creators of it, just the same as Ebola would not resolve yes for Ebola fighters.

@NzJack0n I agree with that, initially I thought it was a bit more focused on AI but based on what I’ve been looking at and hearing it’s mainly about the people, so that’s why, hopefully that clears some stuff up

opened a Ṁ10 Xi Jinping YES at 3% order

@JeromeHPowell Is this still your opinion after reading the article?

@Primer Look, TIME chickened out; the article was about AI, not the creators. However, the POTY was the creators, so yes, I stand strong in my decision.

@JeromeHPowell Ok, thanks for answering. Quite important to be able to assess a creator's views on POTY markets 😜

@Primer Yes, please ask any more you want!!