WEF warns ‘era of shock events’ is coming including AI terrorism

 

  • The post-pandemic era is being shaped by heightened global risk and unpredictable shock events.
  • Power is dispersing in a post-superpower era, while governments struggle with a recurrent crisis of political legitimacy worldwide.
  • The lingering pandemic mental health crisis is being exacerbated by climate and AI.

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of COVID-19’s emergency phase last May, other threats have escalated – more variants, global wars, climate events, tech challenges, terrorist activity on Western soil and even a new public health emergency of international concern called mpox. But what else may be on the horizon?

The following analysis—which is based on a multi-year prediction project with graduate students at New York University and experts at crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat, where I’m a lead analyst—details the global risk trends to watch this decade.

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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/08/4-global-risks-to-look-out-for-in-the-post-pandemic-era/