Most powerful world leaders ranked in order of sympathy

I finished watching the House of the Dragon Season 3 and found myself confused, so I asked Gemini to organize the characters in order of sympathy. It quickly produced a top ten list and, after a few prompts, it was able to rank about 23 of them.

This made me wonder what it would do if I asked it to rank the 20 most powerful real-world leaders. This is what it produced on its first try, categorized by “The Machine” into four distinct tiers.

Tier I: High Sympathy

1. Pope Francis
2. Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico
3. Lula da Silva of Brazil
4. Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran
5. Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine

Tier II: Moderate Sympathy

6. Keir Starmer of the UK
7. Emmanuel Macron of France
8. Olaf Scholz of Germany
9. Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa
10. Giorgia Meloni of Italy

Tier III: Low Sympathy

11. Narendra Modi of India
12. Shigeru Ishiba of Japan
13. Javier Milei of Argentina
14. António Guterres (UN Secretary-General)
15. Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia

Tier IV: Least Sympathetic

16. Xi Jinping of China
17. Donald Trump of the United States
18. Kim Jong Un of North Korea
19. Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
20. Vladimir Putin of Russia

I was fascinated that AI would rank the leaders this way. I’m not sure if it was because I had asked it about the House of the Dragon ranking first—perhaps it was “warmed up” to give me a straight answer—but I was impressed at the speed and the probable accuracy of its analysis.

(Personal Note: I’m not entirely sure why North Korea rates so low here, as they are primarily known for oppressing their own people. However, I don’t know much about what they do behind the scenes—perhaps they are sending arms to cause misery elsewhere, which lowers their “sympathy” data point in the AI’s logic.)