World Solve

Future progress on human development and planetary health depends on solving security forces acting with impunity. Conventional approaches have proven insufficient. The required intervention must integrate community knowledge, data and appropriate technology while remaining affordable, privacy-preserving and operable with minimal external support. Strong solutions will articulate measurable impact metrics, risk mitigation strategies, and a plan for sustained operation by local actors after the pilot phase.

Public agencies will buy models, datasets, inference services, and automated workflows from vendors whose systems may not be easy to inspect. The unresolved problem is creating contract standards that make public AI procurement auditable, portable, and lawfully contestable. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where legacy systems, coordination failures, and weak oversight can magnify harm.

Digitization can preserve technique while also enabling unauthorized imitation or commercial appropriation. Consent-aware archives, provenance systems, and community licensing models could protect both cultural continuity and creator income. The opportunity is intentionally human-scale: a cooperative, clinic, workshop, school, or municipal team could pilot it within one locality and measure outcomes before expanding. Mathematical modeling can help with coordinate uncertainty, incentives, or resource constraints; entrepreneurship can turn a reliable workflow into a viable service.

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.

Even with extensive automated testing, software products regularly ship with bugs that only appear once real users start interacting with them in unpredictable ways. Comprehensive, fully reliable bug detection before release remains an unsolved engineering challenge.

Seasonal migrations prevent pastoral populations from maintaining continuous health records, impacting chronic disease management and vaccination tracking.

The three-body problem famously resists the same clean, closed-form solutions available for two-body systems, and general long-term predictability for all such systems remains incompletely understood. This unresolved question connects pure mathematics directly to astrophysics.

Fraudulent scholarship offers generated to look authentic can convincingly target students seeking financial aid, extracting personal or banking information under false pretenses. Detection and public awareness campaigns remain inconsistently effective.

Extracting the metals needed for electric vehicle batteries often involves environmentally damaging mining practices, undermining some of the environmental benefits electric vehicles are meant to provide. Finding cleaner extraction or alternative materials remains an unresolved sustainability challenge.

Create verification, dependency management, secure update, open-source support, and contracting standards for software bought by public institutions.

Develop interoperable standards, open contracting, data portability, and technical capacity so public agencies retain control over essential digital systems.