About TIME’s AI Chatbot | TIME [Video]

Person of the Year is one of our most enduring franchises. Every year, we aim to name a Person of the Year—the person, group, or concept that had the most influence on the world during the previous 12 months. With this year’s release, we wanted to do something that reflected a recent change in how we interact with information and news.

Our goal was to create an AI chatbot specifically designed to answer questions about TIME’s Person of the Year—past or present—based on a curated body of verified TIME articles, other trusted sources, and the bot’s built-in general knowledge. This chatbot is tailored to provide focused, reliable, and accurate responses while maintaining a safe and professional tone. It is engineered to prevent users from steering the conversation toward unrelated, controversial, or potentially biased topics. 

TIME’s AI chatbot represents a significant step forward in using AI to enhance journalism. With its guardrails and focused content retrieval, the chatbot aims to deliver …