News from the frontier of AI forecasting

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2024-03-28The Forecasting Machine

From Hypermind to Citalid: Maxime Cartan on collective judgement and cyber risk

In a March 2024 VISCONTI Talk, Citalid’s co-founder recalled his Hypermind experience and explained why complementary people and quantified risk matter to leadership.

2024-03-14The Forecasting Machine

Learning collective intelligence by doing: Hypermind at Sciences Po

A practical Sciences Po Executive Education workshop paired group estimation and brainstorming with Hypermind prediction markets. Five years later, Servan-Schreiber recalled the collaboration around Supercollectif.

2024-03-02The Forecasting Machine

Gender diversity and group intelligence: from laboratory studies to workplace practice

Social sensitivity, shared speaking time and gender diversity appear in research on group performance. Servan-Schreiber connects those findings to workplace practice.

2024-01-03The Forecasting Machine

Nine questions for a widening war: Hypermind’s Middle East agenda in January 2024

Hypermind opened questions on cross-border fighting, diplomatic ruptures and leadership survival. The archived announcement records the questions, without odds.

2023-12-13The Forecasting Machine

Wagner, territory and presidential tenure: three Hypermind questions in 2023

At 09:20 GMT on 24 June 2023, Hypermind gave Putin a 60% chance of remaining president through year-end. A December update asked a different question about which wartime leader would lose power first.

2023-11-30The Forecasting Machine

Hypermind’s November 2023 crisis contest turns geopolitical concern into dated probabilities

Hypermind’s November 2023 crisis contest published six-month probabilities by country and risk type, giving geopolitical concerns a defined place and time horizon.

2023-10-11The Forecasting Machine

Thirty projects later: Hypermind and EDF’s Parlons Énergies programme

From a Saclay lecture and a summer university to an exchange in Rabat, EDF’s Parlons Énergies programme put collective forecasting and prioritisation into organisational practice.

2023-10-06The Forecasting Machine

At the OECD’s 2023 foresight meeting, Hypermind shares crowd-forecasting use cases

Servan-Schreiber discussed geopolitics, public health and AI forecasting at the Government Foresight Community’s October 2023 meeting in Paris.

2023-09-26The Forecasting Machine

At Luminus, collective intelligence starts by including other people’s thoughts

A September 2023 presentation linked diversity with collective intelligence. Luminus’s own sustainability report places the talk within its inclusion programme.

2023-09-20The Forecasting Machine

“Governing is predicting”: crowd forecasting at the Brussels Democracy Lab

At a Democracy Lab on smarter crowdsourcing in Brussels on 19 September 2023, Émile Servan-Schreiber gave EU policymakers five reasons to use crowd forecasting, starting with the idea that governing is predicting.

2023-07-06The Forecasting Machine

How independent errors become a crowd forecast: Hypermind’s four aggregation steps

A July 2023 preview highlighted the value of combining different judgements. Its technical companion explains weighting, culling, averaging and extremizing.

2023-05-02The Forecasting Machine

Hypermind’s three tasks for collective intelligence

A May 2023 House Of Codesign webinar announcement connected Hypermind’s collective forecasting, intelligent brainstorming and business decision tools.