U.S. Spy Agencies Warn of Threats From Digital Currency to AI
- Intelligence report warns of leaderless, unstable world
- Debt pressures will make it harder to combat climate change
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The U.S. intelligence community predicts an increasingly leaderless and unstable world in the coming decades as trends such as artificial intelligence, digital currencies and climate change reshape the global arena, according to the National Intelligence Council.
The coming decades will be characterized by a mismatch between global challenges and “the ability of institutions and system to respond,” according to “Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World.” The result will be “greater contestation at every level” -- especially between the U.S. and China.