Fighting in Gaza and Ukraine, rising temperatures and trade disruptions – along with fears of AI-driven falsehoods during an important year of elections around the globe – top the list of priorities for global elites to discuss at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering.
WEF's widely ridiculed talkfest among some 2,800 political leaders, billionaires, CEOs, academics, journalists and other attendees from 120 countries that opened on Monday in the Swiss resort town of Davos will have to get at the "root causes" of all these major challenges to be considered a success, according to WEF's leader.