This week the new Global Risks Report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) is published, it shows how our business leaders look at the future and as you can see there are according to them some big challenges at the short term worldwide.

These are the top 10 gobal risks expected this year form this report:

At short term the geopolitical risk is on top while four out of ten are societal. This while at the long term envoronmental is mentioned five out of ten times.

So at the short term our business leaders have to cope with the possibility of geopolitical conflicts, something witch will have big impact on their business performance, not easy to influence because these risks belong to the domain of politicians.

The strange thing is that a lot of the other reports published on the website of the World Economic Forum are about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the relationship of AI with economic growth. Reading the WEF reports, AI is expected to create a lot of new jobs and will have big impact on the way we work and live. Businesses are focussing on AI while most global risk reported above are not solved by AI solutions. This while on the long term ‘Adverse outcomes of AI technology’ are expected. Reason enough to already taken action to prevent it will create inequality, social polarisation, pollution and have a big impact on climate change.