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:

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Some of Carolyn Meinel's publications:

What do forecasting rationales reveal about thinking patterns of top geopolitical forecasters?

What do forecasting rationales reveal about thinking patterns of top geopolitical forecasters?

Attacking and Defending the Internet with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

Attacking and Defending the Internet with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

Meinel explains how Semantic Search helped in the Geopolitical Forecasting Competition II.

Semantic Studo aided Meinel in GFCII competition.

"For Love of a Gun," electromagnetic guns, IEEE Spectrum, July, 2007.

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Meinel's article on cyberwar, Oct. 2001 Scientific American, reprinted in Best American Science Writing 2002.

Best American Science Writing, 2002

In Skeptical Inquirer, Meinel documents how hoaxers fooled the FBI.

In the March/April 2006 issue of Skeptical Inquirer, Meinel documents how hoaxers stampeded the FBI into diverting counter terrorism funding into the cyberspace beat -- making 9/11 more likely.

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