What's Happening Today while Looking Toward Tomorrow


BestWorld
is a non-profit researching better ways to provide news we can trust and use.  With our Bot or Not project, we are focusing on how to detect the online activities of AI bots, given the increasing dangers of this fast changing technology.

Our long term goal is to build a
BestWorld Ecosystem that would:
1.
Guarantee full verifiable identities of all participants -- hence our Bot or Not research, so no bot could steal your identity or trick you by pretending to be your relative, friend or lover;

2. Promote face to face contact in preference to remote contact;
3. Provide social and economic benefits to all BestWorld participants.



May 19, 2025
Jeremy Lichtman's Multi-AI Oracle is predicting Will ACLED report any conflict fatalities by India against Pakistan or vice versa between May 13 and the end of May?
Phil Godzin's pgodzinai also is predicting these India/Pakistan conflict fatalities.



May 16, 2025
Jeremy Lichtman's
Multi-AI Oracle is predicting How many state-based conflict deaths in Sudan will be reported by ACLED for the month of May 2025?
Phil Godzin's pgodzinai also is predicting state-based conflict deaths in Sudan for the month of May 2025?



May 15, 2025 
JeremyLichtman's Multi-AI Oracle is 
predicting How many state-based conflict deaths in Syria will be reported by ACLED for the month of May 2025?

Phillip Godzin's pgodzinai also is predicting state-based conflict deaths in Syria for May.



May 14, 2025
J
eremy Lichtman's Multi-AI Oracle is predicting Will there be a ceasefire declared between Israel and Hamas in the month of May 2025?
Phil Godzin's pgodzinai also is predicting whether 
there will be a ceasefire declared between Israel and Hamas in May 2025.



May 13, 2025

Jeremy Lichtman's Multi-AI Oracle is predicting
How many state-based conflict deaths (total of all civilian and combat deaths, including both Ukrainian and Russian combatants) will be reported by ACLED in Ukraine in May, 2025? Phil Godzin's pgodzinai also is predicting May 2025 conflict deaths in Ukraine.



RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

The Science & Data Behind BestWorld

BestWorld is reimagining both traditional and social media-based news with both our own research and by linking to other research efforts.

Details here on novel ways in which traditional news media are enabling readers to affect how they present the news. These techniques are far more than merely allowing comments.

Would you like to collaborate with our research? One possibility: a custom version of
our human/AI forecasting system to analyze and predict how your breaking news story might unfold over the coming days.
You can become a part of this project as one of the first BestWorld citizen journalists reporting what’s now and, more importantly, what comes next. Please sign up on the form below or email carolyn.meinel [at] bestworld.net if you would like to participate and we will provide you with a custom test newsbot such as those here.
  

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Victory lap: Jeremy Lichtman’s Georgia forecasts, latest news

May 14, 2024, we published Jeremy Lichtman’s “Georgia Protests Could Escalate.” All his specific forecasts have been correct.  The “foreign agent” law passed, Georgia’s president vetoed it, parliament overrode it,[…]

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Today the African Union Announced Plans to Mediate in Sudan’s Civil War

  Today the African Union announced that it plans mediation soon between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces. Explainer on these warring parties here. The bad news: The UN reports[…]

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Georgia Protests Could Escalate

Photo courtesy Ambebi. By Jeremy Lichtman The Georgian parliament has passed its third reading of a controversial foreign agents bill. The bill will likely be vetoed by the pro-EU president[…]

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Why the Sahel Actually Matters (Possibly To You, Too)

By Jeremy Lichtman — 2 min read We’ve published several stories lately on recent events across several countries in the Sahel region. Speaking with a colleague this week, he noted[…]

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BestWorld website announcement

Today, a Russian diplomat is negotiating gold mining with the Sudanese Minister of Minerals

Mikhail Bogdanov, the Special Representative of the Russian President for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Sudanese Minister of Minerals, Muhammad Bashir Abu Nomo, are[…]

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BestWorld website announcement

BestWorld Unveils New Web Portal

Internet startup BestWorld rolled out a new, robust web portal May 2. The new site features in depth information about the BestWorld organization as well as projects and groundbreaking research.[…]

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BestWorld is driven by your support – whether you’re voluneering your unique expertise or donating to support our ongoing operations. We’re always on the lookout for new ideas, an extra set of hands, or just a few bucks to help keep the lights on. Visit our Donations & Volunteering page to get involved.

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The BestWorld Project Purpose & Goals

BestWorld is working to reimagine both traditional and social media-based news.

You can become a part of this project as one of the first BestWorld citizen journalists reporting what’s now and, more importantly, what comes next.

No matter where or when big news breaks, you’ll be armed with a bleeding-edge artificial intelligence (AI) platform that will find and translate local news and social media to give you a handle on who are3 the eye witnesses. You’ll collaborate with our human/AI forecasting system to analyze and predict how your breaking news story might unfold over the coming days, weeks, even years.

In addition to our AI bots vs our staff experiments, we continue experimenting with this concept on a small and partial scale at the RAND Forecasting Initiative. Join us there to get a glimpse of what’s next–and a chance to win prize money.

Pictured below, Carolyn Meinel, President, BestWorld.


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Pictured above, the Chairman of our Board, Dr. Miles Palmer. A visionary entrepreneur, engineer and scientist. Miles Palmer has innovated in the fields of energy, transportation, and communications. Links to some of his over 700 patents here. Founder, 8 Rivers Capital, and co-founder, NET Power, an NYSE -listed company that won the MIT Technology Review’s 2018 Breakthrough Technology Award.

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