A controversial ‘superforecaster’ has predicted that World War III is about to begin, while will lead to the collapse of the US by 2032.
Martin Armstrong has made the stark claims using AI-powered computer named ‘Socrates’ that he programed to monitors the world news feeds and looks for fundamental news events that correlate behind the global trends.
Armstrong, who used Socrates to predict Japan‘s 1989 real estate crash and Russia‘s 1998 financial crisis, now believes the current conflict in Ukraine will cascade into a wider international conflict, based on the latest data analysis.
‘I think it’s the only real artificial intelligence system in the world,’ the infamous, self-taught economic modeler told DailyMail.com.
Armstrong created the AI program out of a desire to write software that could automate hedge fund trading back in the 1970s and ’80s.
In time, however, he began to realize that his code could also anticipate global conflicts.
‘People always know’ when war is about to erupt, as he describes the data ‘tea leaves’ Socrates digitally sifts through,’ said Armstrong said, ‘then there will be no stoppiAnd thus, there’re always telltale movements of capital before a conflict begins or expands, as the war in Ukraine might.
‘People always know’ when war is about to erupt, as he describes the data ‘tea leaves’ Socrates digitally sifts through,’ Armstrong said, ‘then there will be no stopping war World War III.
‘And thus, there’re always telltale movements of capital before a conflict begins or expands, as the war in Ukraine might.
He continued to explain that in June 1998, the ‘computer projected that Russia was going to collapse. That turned into a long-term capital management crisis.
‘It’s all about the capital flows.’
This summer, Armstrong saw troubling corroboration outside of his Socrates financial model, when Russia’s ally North Korea pledged their own troops to Ukraine’s Donetsk region, ostensibly to assist Russia in reconstruction efforts for a sum of $115 million per year.
‘This opens the door for the West to send troops to Ukraine under the same premise,’ Armstrong wrote in June. ‘All the chess pieces are aligned and ready.’
But Socrates’ inventor wasn’t always so focused on war.
Born in New Jersey, Armstrong was encouraged by his lawyer father to get involved with computers in the 1960s — a hobby that fueled his fascination with markets amid the Crash of 1966.
He became particularly obsessed with the cycles of booms and busts, noticing that the same kinds of oscillations recurred across different markets.
So, Armstrong built a global model in the mid-1970s and began publishing results in 1972, calling his simulation the ‘Economic Confidence Model.’
As he told The New Yorker in 2009, he found that the business cycle comes full circle every 8.6 years.
‘In the 80s, I was in Geneva, when we were all dealing with the OPEC money. I saw Japan starting to rise, and capital began to flow to Asia,’ as he told DailyMail.com.
