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The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is a research centre at the University of Cambridge, intended to study possible extinction-level threats posed by present or future technology. [1]
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk was established by Cambridge University in 2012, which prompted its replication in other universities. [17] This initial rendition of existential risks established what has been termed the 'first wave' of ERS. [14]
Center for Applied Rationality; Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence; Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; F. Future of Humanity Institute;
An existential risk is "a risk that threatens the destruction of humanity’s longterm potential", [8]: 59 including risks which cause human extinction or permanent societal collapse. Examples of these risks include nuclear war , natural and engineered pandemics , climate change and civilizational collapse , stable global totalitarianism , and ...
Institutions such as the Alignment Research Center, [160] the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, [161] [162] the Future of Life Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and the Center for Human-Compatible AI [163] are actively engaged in researching AI risk and safety.
Much of Torres's work focuses on existential risk, the study of potential catastrophic events that could result in human extinction. They have also described a focus of their work as "existential ethics", which they define as "questions about whether our extinction would be right or wrong to bring about if it happened". [5]
The report also warned that the housing crisis poses an existential threat to the middle class, noting that high housing costs have reduced standards of living and increased poverty.
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