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CSER helped establish the first All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations in the United Kingdom Parliament, bringing global risk and long-term thinking to UK political leaders. [ 10 ] CSER has held over thirty workshops bringing together academia, policy and industry on topics including cybersecurity, nuclear security, climate change ...
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]
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit organization which aims to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from large-scale risks, with a focus on existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
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.
Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing was positively reviewed in Futures as a "current and timely" introduction to existential risk. [6] In 2023, Torres became a postdoctoral researcher at Case Western Reserve University's Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence. [7]
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]
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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 ...