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South America / Brazil
WS04703
Research environments may unintentionally create or amplify resistance traits that escape through waste, personnel, or supply chains. Robust solutions must combine laboratory engineering, surveillance, waste treatment, and international rep...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Controlling antimicrobial resistance in synthetic biology laboratories for low-income communities. World Solve Repository, WS04703. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4703
Open
Africa / Nigeria
WS05663
Public services will increasingly depend on rapidly updated models and decision pipelines. The unresolved problem is keeping these systems lawful, understandable, and corrigible as they evolve faster than formal regulations. This becomes pa...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Designing adaptable governance for emerging AI public services in informal settlements. World Solve Repository, WS05663. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=5663
Open
Global / Global
WS04693
Industrial agriculture, pollution, and habitat loss may eliminate microorganisms with future medical and ecological value before they are studied. The challenge is creating ethical, distributed microbial conservation infrastructure. The sol...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Preserving microbial diversity for future medicine for low-income communities. World Solve Repository, WS04693. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4693
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Global / Global
WS05653
Some future climate interventions may have planetary effects while remaining scientifically and politically contested. The challenge is designing governance for experimentation, consent, liability, and termination before deployment escalate...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Regulating climate engineering under deep uncertainty in informal settlements. World Solve Repository, WS05653. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=5653
Open
Asia / India
WS04686
AI-designed biological molecules may be created faster than their safety, ecological, and clinical properties can be characterized. The open problem is building evaluation pipelines proportionate to capability and deployment risk. The appro...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Global standards for AI-designed proteins for rapidly urbanizing regions. World Solve Repository, WS04686. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4686
Open
Global / Global
WS04685
AI-designed biological molecules may be created faster than their safety, ecological, and clinical properties can be characterized. The open problem is building evaluation pipelines proportionate to capability and deployment risk. Affected ...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Global standards for AI-designed proteins with community ownership. World Solve Repository, WS04685. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4685
Open
Africa / South Africa
WS04684
AI-designed biological molecules may be created faster than their safety, ecological, and clinical properties can be characterized. The open problem is building evaluation pipelines proportionate to capability and deployment risk. The desig...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Global standards for AI-designed proteins under geopolitical fragmentation. World Solve Repository, WS04684. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4684
Open
Africa / Nigeria
WS05643
Biometric identity can reduce fraud while also excluding people whose fingerprints, faces, or documents do not match. The open problem is creating identity governance that is secure without making access to basic entitlements brittle. The c...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Controlling misuse of biometric verification in welfare systems in informal settlements. World Solve Repository, WS05643. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=5643
Open
Asia / India
WS04678
Large-scale fermentation may compete with food, land, and water if it depends on agricultural inputs. Future systems need safe, affordable, low-carbon feedstocks that do not shift environmental burdens to poorer regions. The solution must p...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Biomanufacturing using non-food feedstocks without mass surveillance. World Solve Repository, WS04678. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4678
Open
Asia / India
WS04674
Large-scale fermentation may compete with food, land, and water if it depends on agricultural inputs. Future systems need safe, affordable, low-carbon feedstocks that do not shift environmental burdens to poorer regions. The design must rem...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Biomanufacturing using non-food feedstocks under geopolitical fragmentation. World Solve Repository, WS04674. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4674
Open
Africa / Kenya
WS05634
Heatwaves may force governments to decide who gets priority access to cooling centers, electricity, transport, and medical care. The challenge is building allocation rules that are both ethical and operationally enforceable. The challenge i...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Fair allocation of scarce cooling in climate emergencies across fragmented municipalities. World Solve Repository, WS05634. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=5634
Open
Global / Global
WS04673
Large-scale fermentation may compete with food, land, and water if it depends on agricultural inputs. Future systems need safe, affordable, low-carbon feedstocks that do not shift environmental burdens to poorer regions. The solution must w...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Biomanufacturing using non-food feedstocks for low-income communities. World Solve Repository, WS04673. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4673
Open
South America / Brazil
WS04663
Genomic medicine could improve treatment while enabling insurers, employers, states, or platforms to infer sensitive traits. The challenge is ensuring people benefit from precision medicine without losing control over biological information...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Personalized medicine without genetic discrimination for low-income communities. World Solve Repository, WS04663. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4663
Open
North America / Mexico
WS05623
Historical records increasingly exist in fragile digital formats that may outlive current software, vendors, and hardware. The unresolved problem is preserving public memory across decades of technological change. The challenge is especiall...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Protection of public archives against digital extinction in informal settlements. World Solve Repository, WS05623. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=5623
Open
South America / Brazil
WS05620
AI agents may perform tasks once done by contractors, analysts, translators, and assistants. The challenge is creating rules for liability, taxation, attribution, and market fairness when human labor and machine labor overlap. The challenge...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Governance of synthetic labor markets across multiple jurisdictions. World Solve Repository, WS05620. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=5620
Open
Global / Global
WS04653
Engineered microbes, insects, crops, and gene drives may offer major ecological benefits but could spread beyond intended boundaries. The unresolved problem is developing reversible, monitorable, and internationally governed release framewo...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Safe environmental release of engineered organisms for low-income communities. World Solve Repository, WS04653. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4653
Open
Europe / Germany
WS05613
AI agents may perform tasks once done by contractors, analysts, translators, and assistants. The challenge is creating rules for liability, taxation, attribution, and market fairness when human labor and machine labor overlap. The challenge...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Governance of synthetic labor markets in informal settlements. World Solve Repository, WS05613. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=5613
Open
South America / Brazil
WS04643
Future outbreaks may involve pathogens for which no profitable commercial market exists. A useful solution requires distributed manufacturing, adaptable platforms, pre-negotiated procurement, and equitable access before an outbreak occurs. ...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Rapid vaccine manufacturing for pathogens with no existing market for low-income communities. World Solve Repository, WS04643. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4643
Open
Asia / Bangladesh
WS05603
Predictive policing can reinforce historical bias even when built from apparently neutral data. The open problem is designing standards that make public safety tools testable, reviewable, and defeasible when they cause harm. The challenge i...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Independent audits for government use of predictive policing in informal settlements. World Solve Repository, WS05603. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=5603
Open
Asia / India
WS04638
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...
Team Humans Club. (2026). Global monitoring of synthetic biology risk without mass surveillance. World Solve Repository, WS04638. Retrieved from https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=4638
