WEF Warns of Inequality and Security Risks from AI and Quantum Computing

• WEF report highlights AI and quantum computing as new global risks, with potential to exacerbate inequality, job losses, and security issues • Report warns of AI concentrating power and wealth, biasing medical R&D towards wealthy, enabling biological weapons • Quantum computing could disrupt technology monopolies but presents risks of cryptographic attacks • Deepfakes and manipulated content flagged as risks for eroding trust in facts and authority • WEF calls for greater awareness, education, and regulation around AI to address multiple threats