Since I can't read the article I believe they are referencing to https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/metaculus-cup-summer-20...

It seems to be that they were trying beat a guy named Dylan Mathews. And seems like the community beat him in making predictions for 58 questions about the future

The markets are a highly complex dynamic system. There are many instances of it exhibiting disastrous behavior, especially in response to changes and shocks.

AI trading and investment advice meaningfully changes the system and its dynamics. It seems highly probable that this will result in it failing in new ways.

Investing used to be a resource-weighted signal of human economic projections, where resources flow to better projections. Public markets had social value for their resource allocation and signalling/coordination benefits. Now? How could they avoid hallucination contagions?

So my plan to go from a developer to an economist is scrapped. What now?

So I guess the AI companies can stop with their plans to infest AI with ads and they'll instead fully fund themselves by using their AI to gamble on stocks and the prediction market right? Surely the chatbots will just print money!

The best human forecasters working with artificial intelligence are going to do even better than either alone, the dichotomy is artificial.

Are the models going to skew their analysis to preserve AI companies as a form of self-preservation?

That is too bad for The Economist. Exor N.V and Agnelli might replace some pundits at The Economist.

See also The AI Superforecasters Are Here https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-ai-superforecasters-are... and discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806296