What World Solve is
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.
For builders
Skip the search for a problem worth your time. Browse a vetted, growing list and start where the gap is real.
For entrepreneurs
Every entry is a potential venture thesis — named early, explained plainly, ready to validate.
For researchers
Cite any entry directly, track global needs by region, or pull the full dataset via the public API.
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We don't have chips that keep getting faster now that transistors are near their physical limit.
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For decades, computer chips got faster mainly by shrinking transistors, but they're now near the smallest physically possible size. Finding a new way to keep computing power growing is an open engineering problem.
Citation ID: WS00035
Title: We don't have chips that keep getting faster now that transistors are near their physical limit.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=35
We haven't solved how to make software supply chains fully verifiable from source to user.
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Modern software is built from thousands of smaller components, any of which could be secretly tampered with. Without full traceability, a single compromised piece can quietly infect software used by millions.
Citation ID: WS00034
Title: We haven't solved how to make software supply chains fully verifiable from source to user.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=34
We can't build robots that move and adapt in unpredictable environments as well as animals do.
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Even the best robots struggle with uneven terrain, sudden obstacles, or tasks requiring fine motor control that animals handle instinctively. Closing this gap would open up robotics for disaster response, farming, and elder care.
Citation ID: WS00033
Title: We can't build robots that move and adapt in unpredictable environments as well as animals do.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=33
We don't have a legal framework that assigns responsibility when AI systems cause harm.
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When an AI makes a harmful decision, it's often unclear whether the blame falls on the developer, the user, or the company deploying it. Without clear rules, victims of AI mistakes often have no clear path to accountability.
Citation ID: WS00032
Title: We don't have a legal framework that assigns responsibility when AI systems cause harm.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=32
We haven't created data storage that lasts for centuries without decay or format obsolescence.
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Hard drives fail, file formats become unreadable, and even cloud storage depends on companies staying in business. Without a truly long-lasting storage method, much of today's digital history may simply vanish.
Citation ID: WS00031
Title: We haven't created data storage that lasts for centuries without decay or format obsolescence.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=31
We can't fully protect critical infrastructure like power grids from cyberattacks.
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Hospitals, power plants, and water systems increasingly run on connected computer systems that can be targeted remotely. A serious attack on any of these could cause harm far beyond the digital world.
Citation ID: WS00030
Title: We can't fully protect critical infrastructure like power grids from cyberattacks.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=30
We don't have a reliable way to detect deepfake videos and audio the moment they're created.
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Fake videos and voice clones are now realistic enough to fool most people, and detection tools often lag behind the technology creating them. Left unresolved, this threatens trust in video and audio evidence itself.
Citation ID: WS00029
Title: We don't have a reliable way to detect deepfake videos and audio the moment they're created.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=29
We haven't built a universal, safe way to let AI systems act autonomously in the real world.
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As AI moves from answering questions to taking real actions, like managing money or controlling machinery, mistakes carry real consequences. We still lack agreed safety standards for how much autonomy is safe to hand over.
Citation ID: WS00028
Title: We haven't built a universal, safe way to let AI systems act autonomously in the real world.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=28
We can't yet make AI models that use dramatically less energy to train and run.
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Training today's largest AI models can consume as much electricity as thousands of homes use in a year. Without more efficient methods, AI's environmental cost will keep climbing alongside its capabilities.
Citation ID: WS00027
Title: We can't yet make AI models that use dramatically less energy to train and run.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=27
We don't have internet access that reaches every remote community on Earth affordably.
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Billions of people still lack reliable, affordable internet, cutting them off from education, healthcare information, and economic opportunity. Closing this gap remains a matter of infrastructure cost, not lack of demand.
Citation ID: WS00026
Title: We don't have internet access that reaches every remote community on Earth affordably.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=26
We haven't figured out how to recycle electronic waste cheaply and safely at scale.
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Old phones, laptops, and batteries pile up in landfills, leaking toxic materials while valuable metals inside go to waste. A cheap, safe recycling process could turn a growing pollution problem into a resource stream.
Citation ID: WS00025
Title: We haven't figured out how to recycle electronic waste cheaply and safely at scale.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=25
We can't build batteries for phones and laptops that last multiple days on a single charge.
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Despite decades of research, battery capacity has improved far more slowly than the power demands of our devices. A real breakthrough here would change how we use and design nearly all portable technology.
Citation ID: WS00024
Title: We can't build batteries for phones and laptops that last multiple days on a single charge.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=24
We don't have a way to guarantee software has no exploitable security flaws before release.
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Nearly every major hack traces back to a bug that existed long before anyone found it. Catching these flaws before release, rather than after damage is done, remains an unsolved challenge.
Citation ID: WS00023
Title: We don't have a way to guarantee software has no exploitable security flaws before release.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=23
We haven't solved how to verify online content is real, not AI-generated, at scale.
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AI can now produce convincing text, images, and video in seconds, and detection tools are struggling to keep up. Without a reliable way to tell real from fake, public trust in what we see online keeps eroding.
Citation ID: WS00022
Title: We haven't solved how to verify online content is real, not AI-generated, at scale.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=22
We can't yet build computers that are fully immune to quantum-era code breaking.
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Once powerful enough quantum computers exist, they may crack the encryption that currently protects banking, health records, and private communication. Most of the internet still isn't ready for that shift.
Citation ID: WS00021
Title: We can't yet build computers that are fully immune to quantum-era code breaking.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=21
We don't have AI systems that reliably explain why they made a specific decision.
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Modern AI models are often accurate but operate like black boxes, even to the people who built them. Without a way to explain their reasoning, it's hard to trust them in medicine, law, or other high-stakes decisions.
Citation ID: WS00020
Title: We don't have AI systems that reliably explain why they made a specific decision.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=20
We don't have a reliable way to search for signs of other civilizations at meaningful scale.
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Current searches scan a tiny fraction of the sky and only for a narrow range of signals. Without better tools, we may be missing evidence of other intelligent life simply because we aren't looking in the right way.
Citation ID: WS00019
Title: We don't have a reliable way to search for signs of other civilizations at meaningful scale.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=19
We can't yet detect gravitational waves cheaply enough to study them routinely.
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Current detectors cost billions of dollars and can only catch the largest cosmic collisions. A cheaper detection method would let us study the universe's most violent events far more often.
Citation ID: WS00018
Title: We can't yet detect gravitational waves cheaply enough to study them routinely.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=18
We haven't developed weather models precise enough to predict extreme storms far in advance.
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Hurricanes and tornadoes can still shift path or intensity with little warning, leaving communities scrambling to evacuate. More precise, longer-range forecasting could save lives and billions in property damage every year.
Citation ID: WS00017
Title: We haven't developed weather models precise enough to predict extreme storms far in advance.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=17
We don't know how consciousness arises from physical matter in the brain.
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Neuroscience can map which brain regions activate during thought, but nobody can explain why that activity produces subjective experience at all. This gap separates our understanding of the brain from any real understanding of the mind.
Citation ID: WS00016
Title: We don't know how consciousness arises from physical matter in the brain.
URL: https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=16
