What's new in the AXA Future Risks Report 2024
Patrick Trancu, CBCI
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What's new in the AXA Future Risks Report 2024 and how does it compare to other similar reports? An analysis carried out by ChatGPT 4.0
Based on the content of the AXA Future Risks Report 2024, several key themes emerge that can be compared with other risk reports from 2024. Let’s analyze the distinguishing elements of the AXA report and compare them with similar reports from global entities like the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 or Lloyd’s Emerging Risks Report.
### Key Features of the AXA Future Risks Report 2024:
1. Focus on Polycrisis:
The AXA report emphasizes the concept of “polycrisis”—multiple interconnected global crises, including climate change, geopolitical instability, and social tensions, which amplify risks in unprecedented ways. This is highlighted as a systemic issue affecting resilience.
2. Top-Ranked Risks:
- Climate change continues to dominate as the top global concern, especially with the growing direct impacts on daily life such as increased extreme weather events and related socio-economic costs.
- Geopolitical instability and cybersecurity closely follow, with risks related to AI and Big Data emerging strongly in the rankings.
- A key differentiator in AXA’s report is the identification of misinformation and disinformation, powered by AI, as a significant rising threat, which is intricately connected to the destabilization of democratic institutions and elections.
3. New Risks:
The inclusion of AI-powered misinformation and its societal impacts, including influencing elections, is a standout feature of AXA's report. While AI has been acknowledged in many other reports (like WEF’s Global Risks), AXA places significant emphasis on its role in misinformation, which is not always as extensively highlighted elsewhere.
4. Social Tensions and Movements:
AXA’s report identifies rising social tensions and movements as a key risk, spurred by increasing inequalities and cost of living crises. This risk has risen significantly in their rankings, reflecting societal fractures, which are linked to both geopolitical and economic stresses.
5. Technological Risks and Security Threats:
Another distinguishing feature is AXA’s focus on the intersection of technological risks (AI, cybersecurity) and traditional security threats (terrorism and political instability), which form a complex nexus of risk.
### Comparison with Other 2024 Reports:
1. World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024:
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- WEF’s report similarly ranks climate change and geopolitical instability high on the list, with technological disruption playing a major role, especially in terms of cybersecurity.
- However, WEF places more emphasis on economic risks, such as inflation and cost-of-living pressures, compared to AXA’s more direct focus on social tensions and misinformation risks.
- While WEF acknowledges misinformation as a rising risk, AXA’s report delves deeper into the societal consequences of AI-driven disinformation, particularly concerning democratic processes, which makes AXA's analysis more distinct in this area.
2. Lloyd’s Emerging Risks Report 2024:
- Lloyd’s highlights climate risk, cybersecurity, and economic shocks prominently, similar to AXA. However, Lloyd’s places a greater focus on financial risks, including systemic risks in global financial markets.
- AXA’s attention to the rise of social movements and misinformation as key drivers of instability sets it apart, as Lloyd’s leans more toward traditional financial and operational risks.
3. OECD Global Risks Report 2024:
- The OECD focuses heavily on economic vulnerabilities and climate risks, especially the economic costs of transitioning to a greener economy.
- The emphasis on demographic changes, specifically aging populations, is shared between AXA and OECD. However, AXA expands this discussion to include its impacts on healthcare costs and the ecological transition, making its approach more holistic in terms of societal resilience.
### Unique Aspects of the AXA Report:
1. AI-Powered Misinformation: AXA's identification of AI's role in spreading misinformation and influencing democratic elections is a unique and urgent focus, especially considering 2024 as a pivotal election year globally.
2. Social Tensions: AXA links societal instability, including inequalities and social movements, to broader geopolitical and technological risks, painting a picture of how multiple crises reinforce each other.
3. Role of Insurers: AXA's report frequently reiterates the role of insurers in mitigating these emerging risks, highlighting the need for innovative insurance products to support societal resilience, especially in the face of climate-related disasters.
In summary, while AXA's Future Risks Report shares some similarities with other global risk assessments—particularly around climate change, geopolitical instability, and cybersecurity—it stands out by emphasizing AI-driven misinformation and social tensions, and by framing these risks as part of a larger polycrisis. Other reports tend to focus more on economic vulnerabilities or technological disruptions in isolation.
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