Misinformation and disinformation, increasingly powered by AI, are identified as the most severe global risk over the next two years by the World Economic Forum
Last week, I summarized five of the eight critical shifts identified in a recent UN Environment Programme report, Navigating New Horizons, which is “a global foresight report on planetary health and human well-being.”This week I will dig deeper into this sixth challenge, as well as two remaining challenges that are really about governance: misinformation, declining trust and polarization and polycentricity and the diffusion of governance.
Moreover, “between 1995 and 2021, the top 1 per cent captured 38 per cent of the global increase in total wealth, while the bottom 50 per cent again accounted for just 2 per cent.” It does so in two ways: First, “this growing concentration of wealth … confers huge economic and political power on a tiny elite.”
Turning then to the seventh critical shift — misinformation, declining trust and polarization — the report notes: “Misinformation and disinformation, increasingly powered by AI, is identified as the most severe global risk over the next two years in the latest Global Risk Report of the World Economic Forum , undermining social cohesion, trust in institutions and fuelling political divides.”
The final critical shift is a diffusion of governance, partly because of “a recognition that national governments have been unable to address global sustainability challenges — either operating individually or multilaterally.” But it does require an assurance of “very high levels of transparency, accountability and integrity,” which is not often apparent.
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