Issue A world model can be internally consistent and still wrong about how the world works

Summary

The Dubai Future Foundation outlook warns that world models bring a distinct kind of risk. Beyond reproducing bias in their training data, they may form mistaken assumptions about how the world actually works. A model can be perfectly consistent with itself and still be wrong, leaving blind spots when it moves from controlled settings into real ones. Catching such errors would require stating assumptions clearly at the outset, thorough stress testing, and audits that follow data drift, possible tampering and shifts in underlying assumptions. Yet audit frameworks, liability standards and validation benchmarks are still under construction while deployment speeds up. The outlook adds that institutions built for stability must learn to govern systems that keep revising themselves.