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What percentage of U.S. news articles about AI will be about privacy and security between June 15 and August 15, 2020, inclusive?

Multiple choice Opened 6 June 2020 Closed 16 August 2020 Resolved 21 August 2020 63 forecasts 57 forecasters

Data and resolution details. This question is based on data from Nexis Metabase, a corpus of global news articles on a variety of topics. An article is on the topic of AI if it mentions the term "artificial intelligence"; and it's on the topic of privacy and security if it mentions the terms "privacy" and "security." 

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Outcome

Answer Final crowd forecast Resolution
Less than 0.5% 13% Did not happen
Between 0.5% and 1.0%, inclusive 49% Did not happen
More than 1.0% but less than or equal to 1.5% 23% Happened
More than 1.5% 15% Did not happen

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