ManifoldPlay moneyAI / TechDevelopingUpdated 8m ago

By 2028, will economists attribute a visible break in US economic or productivity trends to AI?

As of Oct 27, 2026, 8:22 AM ET, Manifold priced this market at 30.4% (up from 29.2% 24 hours earlier). It had 106.4 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 100 mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
30.4%
+1.2 percentage points
over 24 hours29.2% → 30.4%

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Stable

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

100 mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

106.4 mana

Total volume

221.7 mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
44%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

8

Trades

74

over 86 days

Largest order

30 mana

218.4 mana traded across these 74 trades (last 86 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$218.4 traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

Related to ACX five year predictions. I will resolve this based on my impression of the consensus of economists at that time.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

Related to ACX five year predictions. I will resolve this based on my impression of the consensus of economists at that time. By "visible break", I mean clearly larger than ordinary year-to-year variation, and widely remarked upon. Update 2025-19-01 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Clarifications: A direct effect of AI refers to economic changes directly caused by AI itself, and does not include effects resulting from phenomena like an AI industry bubble bursting. Resolution note: This market resolves identically to the corresponding source market, including N/A or partial resolutions. Any first-person language refers to that market's creator, not this market's creator.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesJanuary 2, 2028 at 2:59 AM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 27, 8:30 AM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±24 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
1Low
Where the price path tends to go next569 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet99%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~35h
PredictabilityElevated irreducibility

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H-0.624H+1.27D+1.2

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