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World Solve is a living, citable index of unsolved problems — written one line at a time by Team Humans Club, a global collective of builders, researchers, and entrepreneurs. We do not solve the problems here. We Democratize Innovation.
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Peacekeeping missions are often kept in place for decades without a clear plan for when they should end.
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Some UN peacekeeping operations have run for so long that local governments and populations start questioning whether they're actually achieving anything anymore. Without clear exit criteria, missions risk becoming permanent without ever solving the underlying conflict.
Citation ID: WS00366
Title: Peacekeeping missions are often kept in place for decades without a clear plan for when they should end.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=366
International courts have no reliable way to enforce their own rulings against powerful countries.
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A country can be found in violation of international law and simply ignore the ruling with little real consequence, especially if it holds significant economic or military power. This selectively weakens the rule of law based on who is being judged.
Citation ID: WS00365
Title: International courts have no reliable way to enforce their own rulings against powerful countries.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=365
Trade negotiations between rich and poor nations routinely stall for decades over the same disputes.
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Talks over agricultural subsidies and intellectual property rights have dragged on for over twenty years without resolution in some cases, because neither side is willing to compromise. This gridlock pushes countries toward smaller side deals that fragment the global trading system further.
Citation ID: WS00364
Title: Trade negotiations between rich and poor nations routinely stall for decades over the same disputes.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=364
There is no global authority with real power to regulate cross-border artificial intelligence systems.
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AI models built in one country are used and can cause harm worldwide, yet no institution has the mandate to set or enforce shared rules. This leaves a fast-moving technology essentially ungoverned at the international level.
Citation ID: WS00363
Title: There is no global authority with real power to regulate cross-border artificial intelligence systems.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=363
Developing countries remain underrepresented in the institutions that set global economic rules.
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Voting power at bodies like the IMF still roughly reflects the economic order from decades ago, giving less voice to countries that now represent a huge share of the world's population. This mismatch fuels distrust in the fairness of global rule-making.
Citation ID: WS00362
Title: Developing countries remain underrepresented in the institutions that set global economic rules.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=362
Wealthy donor countries can quietly steer the priorities of international institutions through targeted funding.
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Many global bodies depend heavily on voluntary contributions rather than fixed dues, letting big funders push their own priorities ahead of the institution's broader mission. This undermines the independence these institutions are supposed to have.
Citation ID: WS00361
Title: Wealthy donor countries can quietly steer the priorities of international institutions through targeted funding.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=361
Global health emergencies still depend on countries honestly reporting outbreaks on their own.
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The World Health Organization has no power to investigate or verify outbreak reports if a country delays or downplays them for political reasons. This gap can turn a containable outbreak into a global pandemic.
Citation ID: WS00360
Title: Global health emergencies still depend on countries honestly reporting outbreaks on their own.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=360
Most international agreements have no real way to force a country to keep its promises.
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Treaties on climate, trade, and human rights rely on voluntary compliance, and countries that break them rarely face meaningful consequences. This makes international law more of a suggestion than a binding rule.
Citation ID: WS00359
Title: Most international agreements have no real way to force a country to keep its promises.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=359
The UN Security Council still gives five countries a veto that can block almost anything.
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This means a single permanent member can stop global action on war, genocide, or humanitarian crises regardless of what the rest of the world wants. Reforming this without those same countries blocking the reform remains unresolved.
Citation ID: WS00358
Title: The UN Security Council still gives five countries a veto that can block almost anything.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=358
We haven't solved how to make citizen science projects reliable enough to be used in serious research.
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Volunteer-collected data can expand research at a scale professional scientists alone couldn't achieve, but ensuring its accuracy and consistency remains an unresolved challenge for researchers who want to use it.
Citation ID: WS00357
Title: We haven't solved how to make citizen science projects reliable enough to be used in serious research.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=357
We don't have a reliable way to verify the authenticity of historical artifacts before they enter private collections.
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Fake or looted artifacts sometimes enter the art market disguised as legitimate finds, and verification methods remain inconsistent across the industry. Better systems could protect both cultural heritage and honest collectors.
Citation ID: WS00356
Title: We don't have a reliable way to verify the authenticity of historical artifacts before they enter private collections.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=356
We don't have a fully general method for solving all classes of partial differential equations.
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These equations describe everything from heat flow to fluid movement, but many types still lack a general, reliable solving method. Progress here would ripple into physics, engineering, and climate modeling.
Citation ID: WS00355
Title: We don't have a fully general method for solving all classes of partial differential equations.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=355
We haven't proven the exact conditions under which certain infinite series converge to a finite value.
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Some mathematical series behave predictably, while others sit in ambiguous territory where convergence is difficult to prove definitively. Fully resolving these cases remains an active area of mathematical research.
Citation ID: WS00354
Title: We haven't proven the exact conditions under which certain infinite series converge to a finite value.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=354
We don't agree on whether it's ethical to use personal data to influence people's decisions without their explicit awareness.
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Many platforms subtly shape user decisions using personal data in ways users don't fully realize or understand. Where persuasion ends and manipulation begins remains a genuinely unsettled ethical line.
Citation ID: WS00353
Title: We don't agree on whether it's ethical to use personal data to influence people's decisions without their explicit awareness.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=353
We haven't found a shared answer for how much technological unemployment society should be willing to accept in exchange for progress.
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New technologies have always displaced some jobs while creating others, but there's no agreed threshold for how much short-term harm is an acceptable cost of long-term progress.
Citation ID: WS00352
Title: We haven't found a shared answer for how much technological unemployment society should be willing to accept in exchange for progress.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=352
We don't agree on how much say a community should have over research conducted on genetic material collected from its members.
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Genetic research sometimes uses samples collected from communities, particularly indigenous ones, without full ongoing consent or benefit sharing. What ethical obligations researchers owe these communities afterward remains unsettled.
Citation ID: WS00351
Title: We don't agree on how much say a community should have over research conducted on genetic material collected from its members.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=351
We haven't settled whether it's ethical to use predictive policing tools that rely on historical crime data.
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Predictive policing tools can reflect and reinforce biases present in historical policing data, raising fairness concerns even when the tools reduce some crime. Whether their benefits ethically outweigh this risk remains contested.
Citation ID: WS00350
Title: We haven't settled whether it's ethical to use predictive policing tools that rely on historical crime data.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=350
We don't agree on how much moral consideration should be given to future artificial general intelligence, if it's ever created.
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If a machine intelligence ever matched or exceeded human reasoning, questions about its moral status and rights would become urgent very quickly. Philosophy currently has no settled framework ready for that possibility.
Citation ID: WS00349
Title: We don't agree on how much moral consideration should be given to future artificial general intelligence, if it's ever created.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=349
We can't yet ensure global supply chains are resilient enough to withstand simultaneous regional disruptions.
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Modern supply chains are often optimized for efficiency over resilience, leaving them vulnerable when multiple regions face disruption at once. Rebalancing this trade-off remains an unresolved challenge for global trade.
Citation ID: WS00348
Title: We can't yet ensure global supply chains are resilient enough to withstand simultaneous regional disruptions.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=348
We don't have a widely accepted way to price the true economic cost of biodiversity loss.
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Losing species and healthy ecosystems carries real economic consequences, from reduced crop pollination to fewer new medicines, but this cost rarely shows up clearly in economic decision-making. Building this into policy remains largely unresolved.
Citation ID: WS00347
Title: We don't have a widely accepted way to price the true economic cost of biodiversity loss.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=347
