Issue Inadequate shared data for fast-moving, technically complex risks

Summary

Respondents saw the barriers to response as differing with the nature of each risk. For fast-changing and technically complex risks such as AI and frontier technologies, mis- and disinformation, new pandemics, geoengineering disasters and space-based events, a lack of data and information was named the key obstacle. Respondents stressed that building a common understanding has to come first if these risks are to be managed. For better-understood risks such as natural hazards and the collapse of multilateral institutions, by contrast, the required action is known and the problem identified was insufficient funding. The report's executive summary also points to poor sharing of data and information as a major driver of risk in frontier technology.