Financial Systems
Stablecoins could become a systemic risk to global financial stability, central banks warn
Asset-backed digital currencies are set to enter widespread usage and pose
Systemic Risk
Critical Systems
Chinese IoT ‘kill switches’ could disable Britain’s critical systems and infrastructure, MPs warn
"When one country controls the overwhelming supply of a technology, that is by its nature a structural risk."
Critical Systems
The Silicon Age Collapse: Systemic risks that could derail digital civilization
The first part of an ongoing series exploring threats that could trigger catastrophic cascading failures across the modern world.
AI
Software complexity is outpacing humans' ability to control it, Datadog warns
Will legacy homo sapiens lose control of its systems as AI agents take the reins and complexity spirals beyond the comprehension of our species?
Systemic Risk
El Niño is a "systemic shock" that could wreck semiconductor supply chains, the WEF warns
“Crises no longer arrive neatly or sequentially. They overlap, compound, and amplify one another.”
Security
"AI didn’t invent new classes of risk. It poured fuel onto existing ones."
Dr Andrew Bolster sets out new security approaches that respond to the accelerating pace of AI-enabled software development.