World Solve

rising rates of obesity driven by poor diets remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Systems currently in place are inadequate for the scale and complexity of the problem. A successful approach must work where resources are scarcest and demonstrate clear, measurable results. It should identify possible harms, respect local agency, and show how the solution can be maintained and expanded by the communities it is meant to serve.

children suffering from chronic undernutrition remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Systems currently in place are inadequate for the scale and complexity of the problem. A successful approach must work where resources are scarcest and demonstrate clear, measurable results. It should identify possible harms, respect local agency, and show how the solution can be maintained and expanded by the communities it is meant to serve.

Biological data repositories growing in public or private trees raise questions of ownership, access, and longevity. The problem is ensuring that information rooted in living organisms remains under the control of the original subject and does not become harvestable by third parties.

Vehicles that dynamically alter destinations according to collective emotional signals create unpredictability for both passengers and city logistics. The challenge is balancing responsiveness with reliability so that mobility remains dependable for work, care, and emergency needs.

The ability to permanently remove selected people from one’s sensory field can protect against harm but also enable complete social erasure and polarisation. The challenge is setting limits and accountability so that muting remains a last resort rather than a default social tool.

rising sea levels threatening coastal populations remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Systems currently in place are inadequate for the scale and complexity of the problem. A successful approach must work where resources are scarcest and demonstrate clear, measurable results. It should identify possible harms, respect local agency, and show how the solution can be maintained and expanded by the communities it is meant to serve.

growing risk of mass species extinction remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Systems currently in place are inadequate for the scale and complexity of the problem. A successful approach must work where resources are scarcest and demonstrate clear, measurable results. It should identify possible harms, respect local agency, and show how the solution can be maintained and expanded by the communities it is meant to serve.

increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Systems currently in place are inadequate for the scale and complexity of the problem. A successful approach must work where resources are scarcest and demonstrate clear, measurable results. It should identify possible harms, respect local agency, and show how the solution can be maintained and expanded by the communities it is meant to serve.

accelerating loss of the world's forests remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Systems currently in place are inadequate for the scale and complexity of the problem. A successful approach must work where resources are scarcest and demonstrate clear, measurable results. It should identify possible harms, respect local agency, and show how the solution can be maintained and expanded by the communities it is meant to serve.

When collective memory of shared events is rewritten in real time by majority vote or algorithmic consensus, no stable historical baseline remains. The problem is creating durable, independently verifiable archives that coexist with participatory updating without being overwritten.

massive accumulation of plastic in the oceans remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Systems currently in place are inadequate for the scale and complexity of the problem. A successful approach must work where resources are scarcest and demonstrate clear, measurable results. It should identify possible harms, respect local agency, and show how the solution can be maintained and expanded by the communities it is meant to serve.

housing that remains unaffordable for ordinary families remains one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Systems currently in place are inadequate for the scale and complexity of the problem. A successful approach must work where resources are scarcest and demonstrate clear, measurable results. It should identify possible harms, respect local agency, and show how the solution can be maintained and expanded by the communities it is meant to serve.

Biological design tools are becoming more accessible while oversight remains fragmented across countries and institutions. The challenge is detecting dangerous activity without suppressing legitimate research or creating an intrusive global surveillance system. The solution must produce useful coordination and accountability while minimizing collection of sensitive personal and behavioral data. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.

Biological design tools are becoming more accessible while oversight remains fragmented across countries and institutions. The challenge is detecting dangerous activity without suppressing legitimate research or creating an intrusive global surveillance system. The design must remain functional when standards, trade routes, data access, and diplomatic cooperation are unreliable. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.

Biological design tools are becoming more accessible while oversight remains fragmented across countries and institutions. The challenge is detecting dangerous activity without suppressing legitimate research or creating an intrusive global surveillance system. The solution must work with limited capital, intermittent services, and local maintenance capacity. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.

Future organizations may use teams of specialized agents that negotiate, delegate, verify, and act across software and physical systems. It remains difficult to guarantee that local objectives, hidden incentives, and communication errors do not produce unsafe collective behavior. The solution must work with limited capital, intermittent services, and local maintenance capacity. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.

Automated trading algorithms can sometimes trigger rapid, extreme price swings in smaller or less liquid markets, especially during unusual conditions, without any single actor intending market harm. Building safeguards against this kind of systemic risk remains incomplete.

Businesses seeking to cut corners could potentially use AI to generate fabricated but convincing compliance records for regulatory audits, and auditors don't always have the tools to catch increasingly sophisticated fake documentation. Strengthening audit verification remains an unresolved challenge.

Networks of AI-assisted fake dating profiles can be deployed at scale to build trust with vulnerable users before extracting money or personal information. Detecting these coordinated networks before real harm occurs remains an unresolved platform challenge.

Fabricated reviewer identities, complete with fake credentials, have occasionally been used to manipulate the peer review process in favor of certain papers. Verifying reviewer authenticity more rigorously remains an unresolved challenge for academic publishing.