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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]
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Like their first book, it discusses a range of existential threats, but also delves into what they term "agential risk": the roles of outside agents in existential risk. Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing was positively reviewed in Futures as a "current and timely" introduction to existential risk.
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 ...
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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]