Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Description

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks.

The Centre is dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse.

Its primary aims are:

• to study extreme risks associated with emerging and future technological advances, and global anthropogenic impacts, with the goal of understanding these risks, and developing prevention and mitigation strategies for specific risks;
• to develop a methodological toolkit to aid in identifying and evaluating future extreme technological risks in advance, and in taking the necessary steps ahead of time;
• to examine issues surrounding the perception and analysis of these risks in the scientific community, the public and civil society, and develop strategies for working fruitfully with industry and policymakers on avoiding risks while making progress on beneficial technologies;
• to foster a reflective, interdisciplinary, global community of academics, technologists and policymakers examining individual aspects of extreme technological risk, but coming together to integrate their insights;
• to focus in particular on risks that are (a) globally catastrophic in scale (b) plausible but poorly characterised or understood (c) capable of being studied rigorously or addressed (d) clearly play to the Centre’s strengths (interdisciplinarity, convening power, policy/industry links) (e) require long-range thinking. In other words, extreme risks where members can really expect to achieve something.

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University of Cambridge
The Old Schools
Trinity Ln
Cambridge
CB2 1TN

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