{"id":184019,"date":"2024-02-29T21:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/grey-swans-on-the-horizon-ai-cyber-pandemics-and-et-scenarios"},"modified":"2024-02-29T21:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T03:22:25","slug":"grey-swans-on-the-horizon-ai-cyber-pandemics-and-et-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/grey-swans-on-the-horizon-ai-cyber-pandemics-and-et-scenarios","title":{"rendered":"Grey Swans on the Horizon; AI, Cyber, Pandemics, and ET Scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/grey-swans-on-the-horizon-ai-cyber-pandemics-and-et-scenarios2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb described a \u201cBlack Swan\u201d as an occurrence that \u201cis an outlier,\u201d meaning it deviates from accepted wisdom. Accordingly, black swans are unanticipated, and uncommon, and can result from geopolitical, economic, or other unanticipated occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>Because of major advances in computing, we can now anticipate, and, with applied risk management, help contain what was described as Black Swan events. So, in effect, with predictive analytical capabilities enabled by artificial intelligence, most Black Swans have now morphed into what is now termed Grey Swan events.<\/p>\n<p>An industry leader in the insurance sector, Aon, defines Black Swan events as unexpected, unanticipated shocks. They depict unexpected but predicted surprises that are known as \u201cGrey Swan events.\u201d Similar to Black Swans, they can have a profound effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2007, statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb described a \u201cBlack Swan\u201d as an occurrence that \u201cis an outlier,\u201d meaning it deviates from accepted wisdom. Accordingly, black swans are unanticipated, and uncommon, and can result from geopolitical, economic, or other unanticipated occurrences. Because of major advances in computing, we can now anticipate, and, with applied risk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}