A view of the Parker Lake wildfire near Fort Nelson, B.C. is shown on Monday, May 13, 2024 in a B.C. Wildfire Service handout photo.
In a new report, a think-tank within Employment and Social Development Canada names 35 "plausible" global disruptions that could reshape Canada and the world in the near future.The Parker Lake wildfire burns near Fort Nelson, B.C. on Monday, May 13, 2024. A federal government panel's report lists extreme weather-driven events like wildfires as one of the key near-term threats to Canada and the world.
PHC's report says that in as little as three years, the world's "information ecosystem" could be flooded with misinformation and disinformation created by both people and artificial intelligence . In five to six years, the report says, a collapse in biodiversity "could have cascading impacts on all living things, putting basic human needs such as clean air, water and food in jeopardy."
And in five years, the report says, the super-rich could use their influence to shape public policy and impose their values and beliefs on the world, "bypassing democratic governance principles." "We're always very careful every time we talk about AI: It's the promise and the peril, they come hand and hand," he said in an interview.
The PHC report suggests that in six years, AI could run wild. "This rapid development and spread of AI could outpace regulatory efforts to prevent its misuse, leading to many unforeseen challenges," the report says. Coming in at eighth on the list is what the report describes as the normalization of downward social mobility.
He said that rather than a "flip" into a total collapse, a better way to think about the issue was to consider that parts of the health-care system were already in crisis, such as rural emergency rooms, and to imagine an "increasing, gradual building of pressure."
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