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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 ...
Much of Torres's work focused on existential risk, the study of potential catastrophic events that could result in human extinction. More recently, they have focused on "existential ethics", which they define as "questions about whether our extinction would be right or wrong to bring about if it happened".
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.
The largest topic FHI has spent time exploring is global catastrophic risk, and in particular existential risk.In a 2002 paper, Bostrom defined an "existential risk" as one "where an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its potential". [12]
Seth Baum is an American researcher involved in the field of risk research. He is the executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI), a think tank focused on existential risk. [1] He is also affiliated with the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science and the Columbia University Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. [2]