Signal Technological risks rank 22nd to 27th of 28 in preparedness

Summary

Technological risks cluster at the bottom of the multilateral preparedness ranking of 28 risks. Tech-driven power concentration came 22nd, AI and frontier technologies 24th, cybersecurity breakdown 26th and geoengineering disasters 27th. Preparedness is scored as the average of the ability to identify a risk and the ability to reduce it, and respondents believe the current international system is not well enough equipped to do either for these risks. Preparedness for technological risks was already low in 2024, and the gap widened as the perceived importance of AI and frontier technologies and tech-driven power concentration rose sharply. The report identifies a lack of data and information in this field as a major difficulty.