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Election disruption from AI poses the biggest global risk in 2024, Davos survey warns


Concern over the impact of artificial intelligence in disrupting elections has topped the list of the biggest risks for 2024, according to a new WEF report.

"AI can build out models for influencing large populations of voters in a way that we haven't seen before," Carolina Klint, chief commercial officer for Europe at consultancy Marsh McLennan, which co-produced the report, told CNBC's Silvia Amaro. "An unstable global order characterized by polarizing narratives and insecurity, the worsening impacts of extreme weather and economic uncertainty are causing accelerating risks – including misinformation and disinformation – to propagate," Saadia Zahidi, WEF's managing director, said. Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, said in a press briefing that given the wider reaching ramifications of the election outcome, the consultancy had "no choice" but to rank the risk ahead of the wars between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Hamas.

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