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L’Express Interviews Émile Servan-Schreiber on Polymarket and Money-Free Forecasting
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2026-10-09The Forecasting Machine

Hypermind relaunches its public prediction market with a new trading engine

Émile Servan-Schreiber announced Hypermind’s relaunch on 9 October 2026: free participation and cash rewards, with zero fees, adaptive liquidity and MECE order matching.

2026-10-09The Forecasting Machine

From worry to decision: Servan-Schreiber’s closing argument in Rijeka

At the Lürssen Foundation seminar in Rijeka, Émile Servan-Schreiber mapped the work around a forecast: defining the problem, shaping questions and making probabilities useful for a decision.

2026-10-08The Forecasting Machine

The Forecasting Machine Partners With Institut Montaigne on France’s 2027 Policy Choices

Institut Montaigne’s Les repères de Montaigne programme will use The Forecasting Machine’s probabilities to examine priority government actions after the 2027 election. The contribution belongs to the forthcoming 25th note, on the opening months of the next term.

2026-10-08The Forecasting Machine

Turning Signals Into Decisions: The Forecasting Machine at the OECD GFC Annual Meeting 2026

After two days at the OECD Government Foresight Community’s 2026 annual meeting, Gilles Haumont argued that foresight needs a faster route into institutional decisions. His account also points to the OECD’s existing use of The Forecasting Machine, alongside an earlier record of forecasting experiments and presentations.

2026-10-03The Forecasting Machine

Which 2027 Candidate Will Talk Digital Best? The Forecasting Machine’s First Campaign Forecasts on POL/N

On Delphine Sabattier’s POL/N podcast, Émile Servan-Schreiber presented The Forecasting Machine’s first forecasts on digital issues in France’s 2027 presidential race, from AI’s likely effect on the vote to Europe’s best chance of a real technology race, and debated them with Bernard Benhamou of the Institut de la souveraineté numérique.

2026-09-28The Forecasting Machine

Four lessons from 25 years of crowd forecasting: Servan-Schreiber at the Lürssen Foundation workshop

At a workshop convened by MIT’s Dražen Prelec in Rijeka on 1–2 October 2026, Émile Servan-Schreiber was scheduled to present four lessons on money, Brier scores, the Bayesian Truth Serum and AI forecasting.

2026-09-22The Forecasting Machine

Polls, Prediction Markets or AI? Servan-Schreiber and Verian’s Laure Salvaing on Reading France’s 2027 Election

In an Atlantico cross-interview, Émile Servan-Schreiber and pollster Laure Salvaing disagreed on what prediction markets measure and whether AI-simulated voters can replace real ones. A B SMART interview the same month added his view that, for forecasting at scale, AI has already won.

2026-09-15The Forecasting Machine

“Those markets are killed forever”: Servan-Schreiber on insider trading and the truth-machine problem

In an interview with Compliance+More on 15 September 2026, Émile Servan-Schreiber argued that suspected insider trading damages the product itself, not just compliance. It drives informed traders out of real-money prediction markets, and play money removes the incentive to rig outcomes.

2026-09-14The Forecasting Machine

Agenda Pública Launches Agenda Futura With The Forecasting Machine

Spanish policy outlet Agenda Pública has launched Agenda Futura, pairing The Forecasting Machine’s live AI forecasts with analysis from its journalists and experts.

2026-09-14The Forecasting Machine

Teaching students to forecast: Servan-Schreiber’s seminar at IE University and his class in the UM6P Executive MBA

A new run of “How to predict the future with collective and artificial intelligence” began at IE University on 14 September 2026, with students learning by forecasting in live prediction tournaments.

2026-08-24The Forecasting Machine

“Prediction People”: Servan-Schreiber on why money builds the business but not the forecast

In Stuart Crowley’s “Prediction People” interview, published on 24 August 2026, Émile Servan-Schreiber separated the forecasting mechanism from the business model. He also talked about forecasters who have kept playing for 25 years, AI competing with his own product, and why governments should use crowd forecasts.

2026-08-12The Forecasting Machine

“Performance = Expertise + Diversity”: Servan-Schreiber on the If This Then Dev Podcast

In an hour-long episode of the French developer podcast If This Then Dev, published on 12 August 2026, Émile Servan-Schreiber explained why groups need rules to be smart, how many novices it takes to match an expert, and why he sees large language models as collective intelligence.

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