Co-sponsored by the Gaines Center for the Humanities 2026 Wendell H. Ford Lecture: Prediction Markets and the Policy Choices Ahead November 2, 2026, 4:00pm

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"Prediction markets are, in essence, a collective human algorithm — thousands of individual judgments, filtered through financial incentives, aggregated into a single probability. As the Gaines Center’s Human Algorithm theme asks what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence, prediction markets raise a pointed version of that question: when we encode collective human judgment into a market, what do we gain, what do we risk, and who should be responsible for setting the rules?”