What Is the Biggest Threat to the World in 2025? [Video]

The world feels in an especially febrile moment right now.

Conflicts pushing us closer, perhaps, to a world war. Accelerating climate change and its drastic impacts on our planet and people. The rapid and unchecked advance of artificial intelligence technology.

So what is the biggest threat facing the world in 2025? Newsweek asked experts on global risk for their views. Here’s what they told us.

Oliver Jones, EY Global Strategy Leader

The biggest global threat in 2025 is that there are so many consequential and interconnected threats. There’s a long list.

A global tariff war and growing economic competition; elections in France and Germany that may further empower populist parties; persistent above-trend inflation and weak global growth; unsynchronized technology and AI regulations; heightened US-China tensions; worsening conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East—plus long-term threats like climate change and the impacts of international migration.

What makes things worse is that none of these are “black swans”—each one …