The Australian Risk Policy Institute (ARPI) – convenor of the Global Risk Policy Network (GRPN) – brings you the Top Ten Global Vulnerabilities for 2022.

1. Failure to recognise that information technology is the greatest risk to mankind in the history of the world.
2. Resilience against negatively-inspired closure of global meta-grids of interconnectedness and interdependence is regarded as inadequate.
3. Lack of awareness, anticipation and process in place to identify, prioritise and protect against global vulnerabilities and exposures.
4. Misunderstanding the intentions of nations and (unregulated) virtual nations hence the failure of globalisation in its current form to protect and promote sovereignty and sustainability.
5. ‘Someone’ can and will fix anything that breaks and breakages will only occur in an orderly manner and in the same way and not at the same time around the world.
6. Unreality in practice of thinking that ‘normal’ will self-adjust and that things will continue as before.
7. Reliance on nations and virtual nations to operate in the global public interest.
8. Limitations of AI and slowness to understand a new systems theory of Intelligence Augmentation (IA) – beyond Artificial Intelligence (AI) – necessary to restore intelligence equilibrium.
9. Investment reluctance – people and money – to change from traditional approaches to consider and introduce new solutions required today.
10. Confusion exists between science and politics about the cause, effects and required actions or inactions concerning earth systems.

Further information about the Top Ten Global Vulnerabilities is available here