Disinformation and Cyber-Threats Among Top Global Exec Concerns

The WEF Executive Opinion Survey 2025, based on interviews with 11,000 executives across 116 economies, identifies misinformation/disinformation, cyber insecurity, and adverse outcomes of AI as major near-term national risks. The report emphasizes AI’s role in amplifying high-quality disinformation and improving threat actor capabilities (social engineering, reconnaissance, exploit development), cites NCSC warnings and a study reporting data poisoning incidents, and notes these technological risks are increasingly prominent on boardroom risk agendas.