{"id":227861,"date":"2025-12-26T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ai-overestimates-how-smart-people-are-according-to-economists"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:26:00","slug":"ai-overestimates-how-smart-people-are-according-to-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ai-overestimates-how-smart-people-are-according-to-economists","title":{"rendered":"AI overestimates how smart people are, according to economists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-overestimates-how-smart-people-are-according-to-economists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at HSE University have found that current AI models, including ChatGPT and Claude, tend to overestimate the rationality of their human opponents\u2014whether first-year undergraduate students or experienced scientists\u2014in strategic thinking games, such as the Keynesian beauty contest. While these models attempt to predict human behavior, they often end up playing \u201ctoo smart\u201d and losing because they assume a higher level of logic in people than is actually present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at HSE University have found that current AI models, including ChatGPT and Claude, tend to overestimate the rationality of their human opponents\u2014whether first-year undergraduate students or experienced scientists\u2014in strategic thinking games, such as the Keynesian beauty contest. While these models attempt to predict human behavior, they often end up playing \u201ctoo smart\u201d and losing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}