AI in Strategic Foresight 2025

Benefits and challenges3 The perception of AI’s usefulness for strategic foresight (Figure 3) varies across sectors, with a generally positive perception, except in the public sector. This perception is certainly influenced by “experience of use” – those who have used AI for strategic foresight in practice have a much higher perception of its usefulness. As such, 43% of those who had experience with using AI reported that the technology was either essential or highly useful to their work, another 47% of this group found it moderately useful; the corresponding numbers for those who had not used AI for strategic foresight were 16% (essential or high relevance) and 33% (moderately useful).AI’s advantages come with potential hazards. AI in Strategic Foresight: Reshaping Anticipatory Governance 10