[ti:More CEOs Fear Companies Will Not Survive AI, Climate Change]
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[00:00.04]A growing number of business leaders
[00:03.64]say their fear their companies
[00:06.20]will not survive the next 10 years
[00:09.44]because of pressure from climate change
[00:12.64]and new technology.
[00:15.72]That information comes from a new opinion
[00:19.52]by the consulting company PwC.
[00:24.40]PwC questioned over 4,700
[00:29.04]chief executive officers, or CEOs,
[00:33.44]from 105 countries and territories.
[00:39.12]It released the survey results on January 15.
[00:44.72]The survey's release came as business leaders,
[00:48.76]political leaders and activists gathered
[00:52.44]for the World Economic Forum's
[00:55.20]yearly meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
[00:59.68]Thirty-eight percent of the CEOs
[01:02.88]said they were optimistic
[01:05.40]about the strength of the worldwide economy.
[01:10.16]That is up from 18 percent last year,
[01:14.12]when the world was dealing with high inflation,
[01:17.88]rising interest rates and more.
[01:21.92]Even with more positive opinions on the economy,
[01:26.52]the CEOs say they are increasingly worried
[01:30.80]about their companies' ability
[01:33.28]to deal with major future changes.
[01:37.48]The survey found 45 percent of the CEOs
[01:42.36]had concerns that their businesses
[01:45.32]would not survive the next 10 years.
[01:50.00]The business leaders say they are trying to make changes,
[01:54.88]but they must deal with difficult government rules,
[01:58.96]a lack of skills among workers and more.
[02:03.84]Artificial intelligence, the survey found,
[02:07.24]is seen as a way to make business operations faster.
[02:13.16]But AI is also seen as a weakness.
[02:17.92]Nearly 75 percent of the CEOs
[02:22.16]said AI "will significantly change
[02:25.92]the way their company creates, delivers
[02:29.48]and captures value in the next three years," PwC said.
[02:36.52]More than half the CEOs said AI
[02:40.44]will make their products or services better.
[02:44.60]But 69 percent noted that their workers
[02:48.40]needed training to gain skills
[02:50.84]to use the developing technology.
[02:54.96]The CEOs also said they were concerned
[02:58.64]about how AI would increase
[03:01.76]online security risks and misinformation.
[03:07.12]Organizers of the Davos meeting
[03:10.20]warned last week that the threat
[03:13.08]created by AI-powered misinformation
[03:16.88]is the world's greatest short-term threat.
[03:21.40]The PwC survey shows that climate change
[03:25.44]is both an opportunity and a risk.
[03:29.88]Nearly 33 percent of the CEOs
[03:33.76]said climate change is expected to change
[03:37.08]how they do things over the next three years.
[03:41.64]More than 75 percent of the executives
[03:45.44]said they have begun or completed
[03:48.52]changes to increase energy efficiency.
[03:53.08]But only 45 percent
[03:55.36]noted that they have made progress
[03:58.12]on taking climate risks into consideration
[04:02.12]in financial planning.
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