Wybrane zagrożenia bezpieczeństwa globalnego / Selected Global Security Threats

Abstract

Global security faces a number of challenges and threats across its various aspects. The issue of global security management can be considered in several aspects/ spheres. These may be the following spheres: geostrategic, technological, climate and demographic, which are also called structural forces. Current research results from many expert centres show, briefly, two key global perspectives in the long term. The short-term perspective covers the years 2024-2025, while the long-term perspective reaches until 2034. Of particular importance for global security are the impacts of structural forces on the climate and on artificial intelligence technologies. Climate threats and artificial intelligence technologies are of particular importance for global security. Climate change is already a fact, and if left unchecked, it will have irreversible effects on the natural environment and on demographics. However, artificial intelligence technologies, apart from undoubtedly having a huge positive impact on the development of civilisation, also carry unexplored risks. Separate approaches by government entities will intensify, and non-governmental organisations will focus on climate policy goals, the use of modern technologies, and ways to achieve them. Using the methods of literary analysis and criticism and document research, the author of the article showed that both threats are recognised by respondents, but their negative effects are perceived differently in the short and long term.