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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;
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]
A Conditional AI Safety Treaty can help prevent runaway AI and President-elect Trump should embrace the idea, writes Otto Barten.
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 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.