To help the public better understand the topic, she answered our questions.
What do you consider to be the most important message of your presentation, and what needs to be emphasized regarding geopolitical risks?
Much of what we know about geopolitical risk is filtered through a narrow informational lens of global English language media. Our new index, FinnGPR, built from Finnish language news, tells a very different story from what international media suggest about geopolitical risk in Finland. From the perspective of global media, Finland’s geopolitical risk peaked during the 2018 Trump-Putin Helsinki Summit, yet our index barely reacted. By contrast, Russia's invasion of Ukraine produced a sharp and sustained rise in our index, unlike the global media attention on Finland, which peaked only later when Finland decided to join NATO. Our index thus reflects what genuinely contributes to higher geopolitical risk in Finland.
The key message we want to draw attention to is simple: geopolitics is global in scope but local in perception. Where you get your news shapes what risks you perceive. Global risk indices built on English-language media can give a misleading picture of what people in smaller countries like Finland actually experience. We also need modern AI tools, including a fine-tuned Finnish language model and large language models, to measure these risks more accurately than traditional keyword methods.
https://www.suomenpankki.fi/en/bank-of-finland/board-and-organisation/experts/zuzana-fungaova/
