Trump, AI and Pope Leo battle for Time's top spot; who's leading?

(NewsNation) — As the end of the year approaches, chatter is growing surrounding who — or what — will be named Time magazine’s person of the year.

Here are some of the top contenders, according to data from prediction market operator Kalshi.

Artificial intelligence

There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by in recent years in which AI has not made the headlines, from the newest model of ChatGPT to the Trump administration’s plan to make the United States the undisputed leader of AI.

File - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, appears onstage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI's first developer conference, on Nov. 6, 2023, in San Francisco. Negotiators will meet this week to hammer out details of European Union artificial intelligence rules but the process has been bogged down by a simmering last-minute battle over how to govern systems that underpin general purpose AI services like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard chatbot. (AP Photo/Barbara Ortutay, File) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, left, appears onstage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI’s first developer conference, on Nov. 6, 2023, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Barbara Ortutay, File)

Kalshi data shows there is a 32% chance AI will be named Time’s Person of the Year for 2025.

Pope Leo XIV

Shortly after Pope Francis died in April, the countdown began for the naming of the next head of the Catholic Church.

After a two-day conclave, the cardinal electors chose Robert Francis Prevost to lead the church on May 8, when he took on the name Pope Leo XIV and became the first American to be named pope.

Leo has a 31% chance of becoming Time’s Person of the Year, according to Kalshi.

President Donald Trump

Trump has made headlines since starting his second term, from issuing sweeping tariffs on multiple countries around the world to the passage of his “big, beautiful bill.”