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Who will be TIME Magazine's 2026 Person of the Year?
230
Ṁ21kṀ160k
Dec 31
29%
Other
23%
Zohran Mamdani
11%
Donald Trump and/or JD Vance
10%
Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost)
6%
Dario Amodei
4%
Artificial Intelligence Itself (Including 'ChatGPT', 'Gemini', etc)
3%
Elon Musk
2%
James Talarico
1.9%
Xi Jinping
1.4%
AOC
1.2%
Sam Altman
1.1%
Jon Ossoff
1%
Marco Rubio

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

In ambiguous cases, I will try to match the resolution of the market to who Wikipedia lists in their TIME Person of The Year article.

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Add Mark Carney? @Joshua

sold Ṁ23 YES

@2b3o4o Huh it won't let me

@Joshua I got that a few times trying to trade on this market today as well. This may not be related, or it may

@Joshua typical MAGA Manifold backend censoring the Canadian GOAT PM smh

bought Ṁ4 YES

@Joshua try again. 50 percent of my trades go through

@JussiVilleHeiskanen Just tried and it appeared but then vanished. I dont want to spam it lest I add a multitude of Carni

@Joshua typical MAGA Manifold user only wanting to add a single Carnus

Alysa Liu @Joshua

@ZandaZhu I'll vote for Alysa Liu for anything

The Artemis II crew @Joshua

opened a Ṁ500 YES at 13% order

Any chance to add Hegseth @Joshua?

sam altman

bought Ṁ50 YES

"Bad Bunny" is a poor guess here. If you're following the "Taylor Swift" line of thinking, you're forgetting just how much of a force she was in 2023

@BrendanFinan I mean, I agree, but Bad Bunny has been trading at 12-17% on real money markets for the last month. So, I'd like to hedge that here

I want there to be an Alysa Liu option just so I can be Alysa Liu’s biggest shareholder.

I'm betting on [Iranian war recognition bucket]

bought Ṁ15 NO

Suggestion to add nick fuentes

@comicstosteal The pro-Epstein activist?

@Chumchulum His victims were between 14 and 17, a pedophile is attracted to prepubescent children. Everyone is just wrong about it in their moral outrage. It doesn't change his conclusion about epstein, so it's just choosing not to lie for the sake of lying.

bought Ṁ2 YES

James Talarico, Jon Ossoff, and some sort of consolidated prediction markets option [prediction markets and/or their companies or CEOs including Coplan and Mansour and Lopez Lara, etc] would be some reasonable options in my opinion. Would really prefer to avoid a situation like last year, so I suggest that the prediction market option actually encompass all variations.

@bens @Joshua could we also get Bad Bunny at some point? Mysteriously trading at like 13% on Kalshi lol

Suggestion to add Bad Bunny, who won the grammy for song of the year and will be playing the super bowl (and who's already getting some culture war nonsense because of it)

Moltbook will be person of the year

@PierreS market: https://manifold.markets/PierreS/will-moltbook-be-time-person-of-the (I know you already know, since it's yours!)