AI's power and capabilities will continue to grow in 2025, with new models able to act autonomously, create self-replicas, and further blur human-machine boundaries. But as most governments opt for lighter-touch regulation and international cooperation falters, the risks and collateral damage from unbound AI will multiply.
In last year's Top Risk #4: Ungoverned AI, we cautioned that global efforts to establish AI guardrails would prove insufficient owing to politics, inertia, defection, and the pace of technological change. Some notable AI governance initiatives did come to fruition in 2024—including from the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the United Nations. But without strong, sustained buy-in from governments and tech companies, these will not be enough to keep pace with technological advances.
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