Carolyn Meinel is the CEO of M/B Research, a small, woman owned consultancy.
She also is President of BestWorld, a non-profit startup researching how to create news we can trust and use.
Updated every weekday, BestWorld reports forecasts + current news from our fully automated, experimental GenAI-based bots.
Meinel completed the Spring 2024 AI Safety Fundamentals course.
Her forecasting activities:
- # 1 upvotes, Seventh highestl ranked forecaster, 2024 forecasting season, RAND Forecasting Initiative (RFI) .
- #1 upvotes, Third highest ranked forecaster, 2023 at INFER (predecessor organization to RFI)
- Sixth highest ranked forecaster, 2022 at INFER
- You, too can join RFI!
- Member, Team Ckar, fourth place in IARPA's Geopolitical Forecasting Competition II.
- Her advice on how to grow from a weak forecaster to one of the best.
- Top Ten, best COVID-19 forecasts, GJP 2.0 competition
- Existential Risks Persuasion Tournament. Are we all doomed? When? Meinel says it depends-->
- Meinel was a superforecaster (top 2%) in IARPA's Good Judgment Project and third most accurate out of a cohort of 2805 competitors.
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Some of Carolyn Meinel's publications:
What do forecasting rationales reveal about thinking patterns of top geopolitical forecasters?
Attacking and Defending the Internet with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Meinel explains how Semantic Search helped in the Geopolitical Forecasting Competition II.
"For Love of a Gun," electromagnetic guns, IEEE Spectrum, July, 2007.
Meinel's article on cyberwar, Oct. 2001 Scientific American, reprinted in Best American Science Writing 2002.
In Skeptical Inquirer, Meinel documents how hoaxers fooled the FBI.
Email: carolyn.meinel [at] cmeinel.com
(505)281-0490, cell (505)362-3227
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