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Hoskin would visit nearly a dozen different Canadian homes, moving about Ontario and Quebec before arriving in the "more cultured, more civilised" Vancouver. He became a Canadian citizen and continued to create books, each one more absurd than the last. Rampa allegedly flew as an air ambulance pilot in World War II, evaded capture and torture, and fled a prison camp near Hiroshima on the day the bomb was dropped. In Vancouver, Hoskin stayed in a West End hotel. According to his secretary's self-published memoir, he liked the waterfront vistas but found Vancouver difficult to navigate. He couldn't recreate The Third Eye's success; it had been difficult to find a home that could accommodate his cats, and health difficulties required the use of a wheelchair in an inhospitable metropolis. Hoskin became more reclusive as his writings expanded to include aliens, prophecies about future conflicts, and previously unreported escapades of Christ. Hoskin moved again, this ti...
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Business Resilience in the USA Navigating Regulatory Changes

Companies should have real conversations about when and how to use AI, including how to predict and handle its risks. For instance, as businesses create their own generative AI, they should keep checking the results, which are sometimes wrong and are commonly called "hallucinations."

It is still up to human users to check that AI results are accurate and useful in their current situation



On a social level, generative AI makes people less trusting of institutions and elections because voters have to deal with campaigns from both inside and outside of the country that want to change the results. The Global Risks Report says, "These deceptive campaigns could have very serious effects, putting democracy at risk." The study talks about the strong connections between false and misleading information, social division, and even violence within a state.Bad people can also use AI as a weapon to take advantage of holes in new digital workplace paths. This makes more people and businesses vulnerable to cyberattacks, phishing, and cybercrime.Many people are worried about the risk of losing their jobs to creative AI and other new technologies. But as some jobs go away, new ones will appear. More companies will use AI and other advanced technologies to make their business processes and output more efficient. This will lead to new job possibilities and new risks when hiring, training, and upskilling employees.Companies that are strong can get ready for AI risks and possibilities by looking at their digital and cybersecurity footprints, putting in place best practice controls and guidance, and testing their growth strategies under a lot of stress.Climate change and geopolitics have an effect on supply lines around the world.This year, climate change and geopolitics are two of the biggest short-term risks. Both of these have an effect on global supply lines.

The top 10 world risks over the next two years. Picture: The World Economic Forum



Because of the wars between Israel and Gaza, Russia and Ukraine, national elections, and other events, people are more worried about how these conflicts will affect other areas of politics and the economy. Open war, ongoing conflicts, and humanitarian crises can all slow down the flow of resources, food, and energy, which can put people's health at risk and mess up business operations and strategies.Extreme weather events can also mess up supply lines, and climate change makes them worse. And when things happen at the same time, the effects get worse. Recently, attacks on ships in the Red Sea led some shipping companies to look for new ways, which sped up and cost more the trip. At the same time, the lack of rain has made it harder for ships to go through the Panama Canal. This has caused travel times to be longer, prices for goods being shipped to go up, and more damage to the environment.
As businesses evaluate the strength of their supply lines, they should include disruptions caused by geopolitics and climate change in the list of risks they are planning for. This could include making plans for problems that might happen because of things like regional wars, crop failures caused by climate change, hacking on trade networks, and limits on the export of important minerals.Companies may be able to lessen the effects of these kinds of disruptions by using vulnerability surveys, scenario planning, onshoring or nearshoring, and different suppliers and trade routes.Making businesses stronger in a dangerous world
Because the world faces so many risks, public-private relationships are becoming more and more important for building resilience.Think about climate. If the public and private sectors don't move right away, the world could soon pass an irreversible tipping point: a 3° Celsius rise. After this point, it will be impossible to adapt, and disasters will be inevitable.

Or problems about the future workforce, such as how AI and other new technologies will change people's lives



like where they should live and if they have a job. Some of these risks can be reduced by learning and getting new skills, but there are costs, such as lost opportunities and money.
Working together between the public and private sectors on these and other risks can help make sure that there are good transition benefits and support in place to meet society's growing needs in the future.To get through this fast changing risk landscape, we need to keep working to make organizations, countries, and the world more resilient. We also need the public and private sectors to work together more.Key areas for organizations to work on in order to make themselves more resilient are:Checking digital and cyber footprints, putting in place rules and guidelines for best practices, and stress-testing growth strategies.Finding possible holes in the supply chain's durability.Finding a middle ground between "just-in-case" and "just-in-time" plans.Putting business and growth plans through stress tests with the help of scenarios.Getting workers and customers to trust each other.Businesses, governments, and other interested parties can lower uncertainty, make better decisions about risk investments, and build long-term resilience on a global scale by coming up with new ways to work together and thinking creatively about risk, problems that happen at the same time, and the paths they take.

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