The FRI team

Zach Jacobs

Data Analyst

Zach is a data analyst who, since 2019, has been working with Professor Tetlock and others at the University of Pennsylvania on various forecasting research projects. He served as a research subject and, in later stages, as a research assistant during IARPA’s FOCUS forecasting tournament.

Research authored
Project
The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP)
Ongoing
Working paper
Assessing Near-Term Accuracy in the Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament
Sep 2, 2025
Academic article
Belief updating in AI-risk debates: Exploring the limits of adversarial collaboration
Apr 3, 2025
Academic article
Subjective-probability forecasts of existential risk: Initial results from a hybrid persuasion-forecasting tournament
Jan 17, 2025