Trend Technological Vulnerabilities

Summary

The Technological Vulnerabilities megatrend tracks how new classes of risk emerge alongside technological progress. Sources named include biotechnology, gene editing, precision agriculture, widespread digitalisation and automation, multimodal AI, wearables and the Internet of Things. Some of these threats are becoming more severe, more frequent and more complex, spreading across technical, industrial and geographic boundaries. In the case of biotechnology, they are also crossing biological boundaries. With cybercriminals now more organised and using AI to coordinate attacks, Dubai Future Foundation argues that more innovative ways of finding, assessing and addressing vulnerabilities will be essential.