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The 2026 election may test the impact of excessive trading in prediction markets on the election and its outcome.

The 2026 election may test the impact of excessive trading in prediction markets on the election and its outcome.

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September 8th, 2026

The 2026 election may test the impact of excessive trading in prediction markets on the election and its outcome.

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As trading activity in prediction markets, including those covering this autumn's major elections, surges during the election season, individual states are engaged in legal battles to regulate these platforms as unlicensed casinos, while concerns grow over whether high-stakes betting could influence American democracy in unpredictable ways.

์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ฐ€์„์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋“ค์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๊ธ‰์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋“ค์€ ์ด ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๋“ค์„ ๋ฌดํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์นด์ง€๋…ธ๋กœ ๊ทœ์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฒ•์  ๊ณต๋ฐฉ์„ ๋ฒŒ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ์•ก ๋ฒ ํŒ…์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์— ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์ปค์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This year, the odds in prediction markets have become intricately intertwined with actual election outcomes, which is rapidly emerging as a highly sensitive point of contention for election officials who have spent years combating disinformation and conspiracy theories.

์˜ฌํ•ด ๋“ค์–ด ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๋ฅ ์€ ์‹ค์ œ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์–ฝํ˜€ ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ํ—ˆ์œ„ ์ •๋ณด์™€ ์Œ๋ชจ๋ก ์— ๋งž์„œ ์‹ธ์›Œ ์˜จ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธ‰์†๋„๋กœ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•œ ๋…ผ์Ÿ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Their concerns are broad, yet they largely focus on the apprehension that, should Americans believe they can sway the outcome, the pervasive use of financial incentives would further undermine confidence in elections and democracy.

Their concerns are broad, yet they largely focus on the apprehension that, should Americans believe they can sway the outcome, the pervasive use of financial incentives would further undermine confidence in elections and democracy.

Jared DeMarinis, an administrator at the Maryland State Board of Elections, remarked, "This is a troubling trend that election administrators across the country must confront."

๋ฉ”๋ฆด๋žœ๋“œ ์ฃผ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์œ„์›ํšŒ์˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž Jared DeMarinis๋Š” "์ด๋Š” ์ „๊ตญ์˜ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ง๋ฉดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์šฐ๋ ค์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ถ”์„ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Polymarket, Kalshi, and other prediction markets enable participants to buy and sell contracts linked to the anticipated outcomes of events.

Polymarket, Kalshi ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ์—ฐ๋™๋œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ๋งค๋งคํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Contracts are typically priced between one and ninety-nine cents, allowing customers to trade on a wide array of matters, ranging from the stock market and gubernatorial elections to U.S. Senate primaries.

๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ ํ†ต์ƒ 1์„ผํŠธ์—์„œ 99์„ผํŠธ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ฑ…์ •๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ์‹ ์‹œ์žฅ, ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ ์„ ๊ฑฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒ์› ๊ฒฝ์„ ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The surge in prediction market trading occurs against the backdrop of President Donald Trump's push for a comprehensive overhaul of voter identification and mail-in voting procedures, aimed at dispelling his false claims of widespread mail-in ballot fraud and large-scale voting by non-citizens.

์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ธ‰์ฆ์€ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์ด ์šฐํŽธ ํˆฌํ‘œ์˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๋ถ€์ •๊ณผ ๋น„์‹œ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ์ž์˜ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ผ๋Š” ํ—ˆ์œ„ ์ฃผ์žฅ์„ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž ์‹ ๋ถ„ ํ™•์ธ ๋ฐ ์šฐํŽธ ํˆฌํ‘œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ฉด์ ์ธ ๊ฐœํŽธ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค.

Officials from Kalshi and Polymarket vigorously contend that such activities are by no means mere gambling and pose no substantive threat to elections or democratic institutions.

Kalshi์™€ Polymarket ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ™œ๋™์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋„๋ฐ•์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ์ œ๋„์— ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์œ„ํ˜‘์„ ๊ฐ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํžˆ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They argue that this is little different from trading stocks, bonds, or commodities before an election to hedge against the impact that the eventual winner's policies might have on investments or businesses.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์ „์— ์ฃผ์‹, ์ฑ„๊ถŒ ๋˜๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ตœ์ข… ์Šน์ž์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์ด ํˆฌ์ž๋‚˜ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋ฏธ์น  ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Some independent analysts concur.

์ผ๋ถ€ ๋…๋ฆฝ ๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋“ค๋„ ๋™์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Joshua Mitts, a professor at Columbia Law School who researches corporate and securities law, remarked that "at some level, one could argue that the entire stock market is influenced by the election and its outcome."

๊ธฐ์—… ๋ฐ ์ฆ๊ถŒ๋ฒ•์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” Columbia Law School์˜ Joshua Mitts ๊ต์ˆ˜๋Š” "์–ด๋А ์ˆ˜์ค€์—์„œ๋Š” ์ „์ฒด ์ฃผ์‹ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ์™€ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Officials from Kalshi and Polymarket state that they have implemented insider-trading safeguards mandated by federal law, designed, for instance, to prevent candidates or campaign staff from trading on elections in which they are themselves running.

Kalshi์™€ Polymarket ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์€ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ถ€์ž ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ ์žฅ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ปจ๋Œ€ ํ›„๋ณด์ž๋‚˜ ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ ์ง์›์ด ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ถœ๋งˆํ•œ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฐจ๋‹จํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํž™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

On August 31, Kalshi disclosed that it had detected Republican candidate Laurie Buckhout, who was running in a North Carolina state legislative election, trading on her own race, and had imposed a three-year suspension and a fine upon her.

8์›” 31์ผ, Kalshi๋Š” ๋…ธ์Šค์บ๋กค๋ผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฃผ์˜ํšŒ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์ถœ๋งˆํ•œ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ํ›„๋ณด ๋กœ๋ฆฌ ๋ฒ…ํ•˜์šฐํŠธ(Laurie Buckhout)๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ฑด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ 3๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ž๊ฒฉ ์ •์ง€ ์ฒ˜๋ถ„๊ณผ ๋ฒŒ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ถ€๊ณผํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ฐœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Furthermore, Kalshi asserts, based on its own research findings, that the market exhibits a strong correlation with outcomes.

๋˜ํ•œ Kalshi๋Š” ์ž์ฒด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ƒ๊ด€๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

For instance, an event predicted with a 60% probability actually occurs at a frequency of approximately 60%, and attempts to distort the odds are neutralized by traders who generate profits by investing in accurate outcomes.

์ผ๋ก€๋กœ, 60%์˜ ํ™•๋ฅ ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ธก๋œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์•ฝ 60%์˜ ๋นˆ๋„๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๋ฅ ์„ ์™œ๊ณกํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ๋„๋Š” ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ž๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋ฌด๋ ฅํ™”๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, prediction markets have already left a blemish on their record this year.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์˜ค์ ์„ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

For instance, they heavily favored a candidate who ultimately lost in the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary.

์ผ๋ก€๋กœ, ์œ„์Šค์ฝ˜์‹  ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ํŒจ๋ฐฐํ•œ ํ›„๋ณด๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ง€์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In that primary, opinion polls also missed the mark considerably.

๊ทธ ๊ฒฝ์„ ์—์„œ ์—ฌ๋ก  ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋น—๋‚˜๊ฐ”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

And while votes were being tallied in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, online influencers accused election officials of committing fraud to prevent Republican candidate Spencer Pratt from reaching the runoff, pointing to market odds that he would finish in second place.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋กœ์Šค์•ค์ ค๋ ˆ์Šค ์‹œ์žฅ ์˜ˆ๋น„์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๊ฐœํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ธํ”Œ๋ฃจ์–ธ์„œ๋“ค์€ ๊ณตํ™”๋‹น ํ›„๋ณด์ธ Spencer Pratt๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์„  ํˆฌํ‘œ์— ์ง„์ถœํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋“ค์ด ๋ถ€์ • ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ์ €์งˆ๋ €๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋น„๋‚œํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ 2์œ„๋กœ ๋งˆ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๋ฅ ์„ ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Courts are currently inundated with litigation over whether state governments may regulate or prohibit prediction markets under state gambling laws, including those governing casinos and sports betting.

ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฒ•์›์€ ์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ ๋„๋ฐ•๋ฒ•(์นด์ง€๋…ธ ๋ฐ ์Šคํฌ์ธ  ๋ฒ ํŒ… ํฌํ•จ)์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ทœ์ œํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์†Œ์†ก์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐจ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, half of the states also have statutes that broadly prohibit election betting.

์ „๊ตญ ์ฃผ์˜ํšŒ ํšŒ์˜(National Conference on State Legislatures) ์ •๋ณด์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ฃผ๋“ค์€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๋ฒ ํŒ…์„ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•๋ น๋„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

These laws were enacted with the intent of ensuring that voters cast their ballots based on a candidate's suitability rather than on any financial stake in the outcome.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์€ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธˆ์ „์  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ํ›„๋ณด์ž์˜ ์ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐํ•˜์—ฌ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์ทจ์ง€์—์„œ ์ œ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

It seems unlikely that the court will rule on this lawsuit before the election, and as a result, it is almost certain that platforms such as Kalshi or Polymarket will see unprecedented levels of trading in nearly every state.

๋ฒ•์›์ด ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์ „์— ์ด ์†Œ์†ก์„ ํŒ๊ฒฐํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์€ ๋‚ฎ์•„ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ Kalshi๋‚˜ Polymarket ๊ฐ™์€ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฃผ์—์„œ ์ „๋ก€ ์—†๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ™•์‹คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Billions of dollars could be at stake on questions such as whether the Democratic Party will take control of the House or the Senate, or who will become the governor of the largest state.

๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น์ด ํ•˜์›๊ณผ ์ƒ์› ์ค‘ ์–ด๋””๋ฅผ ์žฅ์•…ํ• ์ง€, ํ˜น์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ฃผ์˜ ์ฃผ์ง€์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๋ ์ง€์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌผ์Œ๋“ค์— ์ˆ˜์‹ญ์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑธ๋ ค ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Administrators of state and local election offices are discussing the need to actively inform voters that prediction market odds are a different indicator from opinion polls or actual vote counts.

์ฃผ ๋ฐ ์ง€๋ฐฉ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ์˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๋ฅ ์ด ์—ฌ๋ก  ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ์‹ค์ œ ํˆฌํ‘œ ์ˆ˜์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€ํ‘œ์ž„์„ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ•„์š”์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Furthermore, they are engaging in in-depth deliberations on how to leverage their office policies to safeguard the integrity of the electoral process.

๋˜ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์‚ฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ์ •์ฑ…์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒฐ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์‹ฌ๋„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋…ผ์˜๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jim Allen, the election director in Delaware County, located just outside Philadelphia, has petitioned the county's election board to incorporate prediction-market trading into the oath mandated by state law for all polling station and county election personnel, thereby compelling them to affirm that they will refrain from wagering on election results.

Jim Allen, the election director in Delaware County, outside Philadelphia, has asked the county's election board to add prediction-market trading to the oath that state law requires of every polling place and county election worker, obliging them to swear they will not bet on election outcomes.

Maryland election administrator DeMarinis stated that he would formally request the state election board to apply the same requirement across the entire state.

๋ฉ”๋ฆด๋žœ๋“œ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž DeMarinis๋Š” ์ฃผ ์ „์—ญ์— ๋™์ผํ•œ ์š”๊ตฌ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฃผ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์œ„์›ํšŒ์— ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์š”์ฒญํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

One of the central issues raised in the midterm elections is how prediction markets might be exploited or manipulated to favor a particular candidate.

์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์Ÿ์  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์™œ๊ณก๋˜์–ด ํŠน์ • ํ›„๋ณด์—๊ฒŒ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์ด๋‹ค.

For instance, affluent supporters who can afford financial losses may inflate the odds of their preferred candidate in order to manipulate public opinion.

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์žฌ์ •์  ์†์‹ค์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€์œ ํ•œ ์ง€์ง€์ธต์€ ์—ฌ๋ก ์„ ์กฐ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ํ›„๋ณด์˜ ์Šน๋ฅ ์„ ๋ถ€ํ’€๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Experts point out that some voters, upon seeing the low odds of their preferred candidate, may abandon the idea of voting and stay at home.

์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๊ฐ€ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ํ›„๋ณด์˜ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์Šน๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ํˆฌํ‘œ๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง‘์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Candidates can strategically leverage favorable odds revealed in opinion polls, turning them into a useful tool for fundraising or securing supporters.

ํ›„๋ณด์ž๋“ค์€ ์—ฌ๋ก  ์กฐ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚œ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๋ฅ ์„ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ ํ™œ๋™์ด๋‚˜ ์ง€์ง€์ž ํ™•๋ณด์— ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

And suddenly, they emerge as front-runners.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์„ ๋‘ ์ฃผ์ž๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค.

This is despite the fact that there is no other plausible explanation for their rise than that an external actor has made a substantial investment in them, remarked Ben Schiffrin, securities policy director at Better Markets, a nonprofit organization dedicated to safeguarding the public interest in financial markets.

์™ธ๋ถ€ ํ–‰์œ„์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ง‰๋Œ€ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์™ธ์—๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€ ์ „ํ˜€ ์—†์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ง์ด๋‹ค,๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ธˆ์œต ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ณต์ต์„ ์ˆ˜ํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ธ Better Markets์˜ ์ฆ๊ถŒ ์ •์ฑ… ์ด์‚ฌ Ben Schiffrin์€ ํ”ผ๋ ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Eric Talley, a professor of law at Columbia University and co-host of the Beyond Unprecedented podcast, cited research by the behavioral economist Colin Camerer.

Columbia University ๋ฒ•ํ•™ ๊ต์ˆ˜์ด์ž Beyond Unprecedented ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ์ง„ํ–‰์ž์ธ Eric Talley๋Š” ํ–‰๋™ ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž Colin Camerer์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

According to that research, when a single individual places a substantial wager on a horse before a race begins, other participants tend to follow suit and bet on the same horse.

๊ทธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๊ฒฝ๋งˆ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ธˆ์•ก์„ ๋ฒ ํŒ…ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋“ค๋„ ๋™์ผํ•œ ๋ง์— ๋ฒ ํŒ…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This phenomenon temporarily distorted the odds until it dissipated as the race drew nearer.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ์€ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ์ž„๋ฐ•ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์†Œ๋ฉธ๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๋ฅ ์„ ์™œ๊ณก์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Talley remarked, "Others thought, 'Good heavens, these people must know something I don't,' and they all began betting on the same horse."

Talley๋Š” "๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ '์„ธ์ƒ์—, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜'๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ง์— ๋ฒ ํŒ…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It was "an intriguing parallel to the present moment."

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ "ํ˜„์žฌ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ์œ ์‚ฌ์ "์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Such advantages are inherently short-lived, argue prediction market insiders.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ด์ ์€ ๋ณธ์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ช…์ด ์งง๋‹ค๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They contend that traders, driven by financial incentives, will flock to unfavorable bets once they recognize the odds are in their favor, causing the odds to revert to levels that an unbiased market would establish.

๊ธˆ์ „์  ์œ ์ธ์— ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žกํžŒ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ž๋“ค์€ ์Šน์‚ฐ์ด ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์— ๋ชฐ๋ ค๋“ค ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋ฐฐ๋‹น๋ฅ ์€ ํŽธํ–ฅ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด ์„ค์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํšŒ๊ท€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

"If you attempt to manipulate prices in a market teeming with liquidity and formidable traders, your efforts are bound to fail.

"์œ ๋™์„ฑ์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ž๋“ค์ด ํฌ์ง„ํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์กฐ์ž‘ํ•˜๋ ค ์‹œ๋„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ์‹œ๋„๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Prices are inevitably drawn back to their natural trajectory, and you will simply end up losing your capital," remarked Rick Heaslip, the legal counsel at Kalshi.

๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ณธ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ถค๋„๋กœ ํšŒ๊ท€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ๋ จ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๊ทธ์ € ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ์ƒ์‹คํ•  ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  Kalshi์˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ๊ณ ๋ฌธ์ธ Rick Heaslip์ด ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Mitts of Columbia noted that a variant that might concern state governments is when a candidate in a state or local election encourages voters to wager on them in prediction markets.

Columbia์˜ Mitts๋Š” ์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ คํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ˜•์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ฃผ ๋˜๋Š” ์ง€๋ฐฉ ์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ›„๋ณด์ž๊ฐ€ ์œ ๊ถŒ์ž๋“ค์ด ์˜ˆ์ธก ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ˆ์„ ๊ฑธ๋„๋ก ์žฅ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This, in turn, would motivate people to vote in accordance with their financial interests.

๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์žฌ์ •์  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํˆฌํ‘œํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋™๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Mitts noted that such strategic maneuvering would be logistically more feasible in smaller elections, such as those where the outcome could hinge on a margin of roughly one hundred votes.

Mitts๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ์ˆ ์ฑ…์ด ๋” ์ž‘์€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ, ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์•ฝ 100ํ‘œ ์ฐจ์ด๋กœ ์Šน๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ ๊ฑฐ์—์„œ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ์šฉ์ดํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

However, the idea remains somewhat abstract, as it presupposes a sufficiently substantial financial incentive.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋Š” ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ํฐ ๊ธˆ์ „์  ์ธ์„ผํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๊ฐ€ ์ „์ œ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋‹ค์†Œ ์ถ”์ƒ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

Nevertheless, this poses a considerable headache for law enforcement agencies.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ๋ฒ• ์ง‘ํ–‰ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ณจ์นซ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Mitts conveyed that he could fully comprehend why the state government, from the standpoint of electoral integrity, stated, "We do not wish for this kind of contract to be traded at all."

Mitts๋Š” ์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์„ ๊ฑฐ ๋ฌด๊ฒฐ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด ์ „ํ˜€ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์›ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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ํ•˜์›, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋น„์šฉ ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋Œ€์‘ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ ํ†ต๊ณผ

C1Sep 18
OpenAI reports concerning new AI behaviorโ€ฆ pledges closer tracking

OpenAI reports concerning new AI behaviorโ€ฆ pledges closer tracking

OpenAI, ์šฐ๋ ค์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ƒˆ AI ํ–‰๋™ ๋ณด๊ณ โ€ฆ ๋” ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ์ถ”์  ๋‹ค์ง

C1Sep 17
Huawei unveils new chip technology amid AI competition with Nvidia

Huawei unveils new chip technology amid AI competition with Nvidia

ํ™”์›จ์ด, ์—”๋น„๋””์•„ AI ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์† ์ƒˆ ์นฉ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ณต๊ฐœ

C1Sep 17
Tech Industry Split Over Calls to Coordinate AI Development

Tech Industry Split Over Calls to Coordinate AI Development

Tech Industry Split Over Calls to Coordinate AI Development

C1Sep 17
Global AI safety strategy hinges on US-China cooperation, yet each sees the other as the problem

Global AI safety strategy hinges on US-China cooperation, yet each sees the other as the problem

Global AI safety strategy hinges on US-China cooperation, yet each sees the other as the problem

C1Sep 17
Trump, downplaying the need to check AI development, says he won't cede advantage to China

Trump, downplaying the need to check AI development, says he won't cede advantage to China

Trump, downplaying the need to check AI development, says he won't cede advantage to China

C1Sep 14
Oprah Winfrey hopes you reach your 'AHA' moment at the Sphere

Oprah Winfrey hopes you reach your 'AHA' moment at the Sphere

์˜คํ”„๋ผ ์œˆํ”„๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์Šคํ”ผ์–ด์—์„œ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ 'AHA' ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋„๋‹ฌ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค

C1Sep 14
New warning about AI risks reignites long-standing debate

New warning about AI risks reignites long-standing debate

AI ์œ„ํ—˜์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฒฝ๊ณ , ์˜ค๋žœ ๋…ผ์Ÿ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋‹ค

C1Sep 14