{"id":352184,"date":"2026-03-22T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/352184\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:08:16","slug":"i-let-ai-pick-my-oscars-ballot-it-messed-up-oddly-but-still-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/352184\/","title":{"rendered":"I Let AI Pick My Oscars Ballot. It Messed up Oddly, but Still Won."},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried something different at my friends’ annual Oscars<\/a> party this year: I outsourced my ballot to Anthropic<\/a>‘s Claude<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It beat around the bush at first, so I asked it to just give me the winners. Claude obliged, delivering confident picks across nearly every category. And it worked.<\/p>\n

I won the pool and walked away with a box of chocolates and bragging rights.<\/p>\n

\"Alistair<\/p>\n

Alistair Barr used Anthropic’s Claude to make Oscar picks\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alistair Barr\/Business Insider<\/p>\n

But here’s the twist: Claude didn’t even complete the assignment fully.<\/p>\n

It failed to pick a winner for Casting, a new Oscar category this year. Maybe the model didn’t register the addition?<\/p>\n

And in a couple of other award categories, Claude picked candidates who weren’t even on those shortlists. Check out the photo above to see where it went wrong.<\/p>\n

Even so, my Claude-powered ballot still outperformed everyone else’s at the party.<\/p>\n

That feels like a glimpse of the jagged edge<\/a> of AI: systems that are clearly powerful, occasionally brittle, and still good enough to win.<\/p>\n

Next year, I doubt I’ll be the only one showing up with an AI-generated ballot.<\/p>\n

Sign up for BI’s Tech Memo newsletter here<\/a>. Reach out to me via email at abarr@businessinsider.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I tried something different at my friends’ annual Oscars party this year: I outsourced my ballot to Anthropic‘s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-352184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}