AI now beats some of the best human forecasters, The Economist reports
233C · reddit · 2026-09-21
The Economist reports that artificial intelligence has now outperformed some of the best human superforecasters. The finding marks a notable milestone: large-scale event forecasting, long considered a domain dominated by elite human judgment, is now an area where models beat the very people famous for their predictive accuracy.
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