
economist.com
September 17, 2026
1 min read
48/100
Summary
Science & technology | AI superforecasters Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters Crystal balls give way to LLMs |5 min read On September 5th yet another domain of human intelligence fell to the artificial variety. For the first time an AI won the seasonal Metaculus Cup, a proving ground for forecasters of a wide variety of events. Not only that, other AIs took the se...