AI’s intersection with strategic foresight offers both opportunities and challenges.
World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network, the OECD Government Foresight Community, and the Dubai Future Foundation | November 2025
“Innovations in AI have opened the door to possible future scenarios that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The technology affects decision-makers around the world, and perhaps none more than practitioners of strategic foresight – the field where experts explore multiple plausible futures and develop strategies to help organizations, governments, and others prepare for events to come. To evaluate AI’s impact on strategic foresight, this white paper presents the results of a survey of 167 foresight experts from 55 countries, drawn from the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network, the OECD Government Foresight Community, and the Dubai Future Foundation.
The results show that a majority of foresight practitioners now use AI in their work. Practitioners report that the technology is useful for essential elements of foresight such as trend analysis, future scenario development and identification of emerging themes and issues. Experts primarily value AI for saving time, saying it streamlines their work by handling repetitive and labour-intensive tasks. Respondents also appreciate AI’s ability to process and analyse large datasets, uncovering trends and insights that would be difficult or time-consuming to identify manually.
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