Cambridge Global Risk Index 2018 sees 16% increased risk from geopolitical threats

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by Daniel Ralph, Andrew Coburn, Jennifer Copic, Simon Ruffle, Michelle Tuveson The 2018 version of the Cambridge Global Risk index sees risk up, with expected loss increasing to 1.54% of the world’s 2018 GDP, compared to last year’s index of … Continued

Realising greater competitive advantages from risk management in a corporation: marrying the upside and downsides of risk

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This post was originally written as part of the Institute for Risk Management’s Risk Agenda 2025 – a project investigating the future of risk and risk management in 2025. Dr Tuveson’s post is also available to be read here.  It … Continued

Artificial Intelligence in the Not-So-Distant Future

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The motto of the Tyrell Corporation – the corporation responsible for android production in Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic Blade Runner – is “more human than human”. As autonomous systems become increasingly ubiquitous and permanent fixtures in modern societies, there is … Continued

Opening Pandora’s box: using city-scale risk models to quantify the global cost of catastrophes, and the value of resilience

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In the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies we have developed a framework to quantify the potential damage from a Pandora’s box of all ills – a comprehensive taxonomy of catastrophes. The methodology and outputs speak directly to the value of … Continued