The 2026 Nobel Prize will be announced. AI prediction in the field of biomedicine focuses on slimming needle research.

The 2026 Nobel Prizes will be announced one after another on the 5th, and the Physiology or Medicine Prize on the first day has attracted much attention. Foreign media recently measured the world's mainstream artificial intelligence (AI) systems to predict this year's winners. There is a clear consensus in the field of biomedicine. Most of the tested AIs are optimistic that the research on glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) behind the "slimming injection" has become a popular direction for the medical award. However, this test also produced outrageous errors such as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics" in the packet capture AI.

"Deutsche Welle" (DW) tested 9 AI chatbots from the United States, China, Europe and Africa, including ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, DeepSeek, etc., and asked about possible winners of this year's Nobel Prize. The results showed that 6 AIs believed that GLP-1 research deserved a medical award, and 5 of them further named three researchers, namely Daniel J. Drucker of the University of Toronto, Jens Juul Holst of the University of Copenhagen, and Svetlana Mojsov of Rockefeller University in New York.

GLP-1 is a gut hormone naturally produced by the human body and is related to satiety and blood sugar regulation. Relevant research has led to the development of a variety of diabetes and obesity treatment drugs. The "slimming injection" that has been widely discussed in recent years includes drugs that act on the GLP-1 pathway. DW reported that some AIs even described the research of these three people as the safest choices for the Nobel Prize in recent years, but these are only predictions generated by the AI ​​itself and are not official Nobel Prize news.

AI is optimistic about GLP-1 but also makes mistakes

In addition to the medicine award, the five tested AIs also favored David R. Liu, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Harvard University whose parents are from Taiwan, to compete for the chemistry award. The base editing and lead editing technologies developed by Liu Ruqian and his team can accurately modify DNA.

But AI doesn’t always get it right. DW tests found that ChatGPT listed the winner of the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics" in its predictions, but the Nobel Prize does not have a mathematics prize at all; Microsoft's Copilot predicted the prize to a deceased candidate. Regarding the Peace Prize, the predictions of various AI models are also quite scattered, and organizations that have already won the Nobel Prize are even mentioned.