Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters

economist.com
September 17, 2026
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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...
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