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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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 co-founders of the centre are Huw Price (Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge), Martin Rees (the Astronomer Royal and former President of the Royal Society) and Jaan Tallinn (co-founder of Skype, early investor to Anthropic).[2]

"CSER" redirects here. For other uses, see Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion.

Formation

2012 (2012)

The study and mitigation of existential risk

Cambridge, England

University of Cambridge

cser.ac.uk

Areas of focus[edit]

Managing extreme technological risks[edit]

Risks are associated with emerging and future technological advances and impacts of human activity. Managing these extreme technological risks is an urgent task - but one that poses particular difficulties and has been comparatively neglected in academia.[3]

Media coverage[edit]

CSER has been covered in many different newspapers (particularly in the United Kingdom),[29][30][31] mostly covering different topics of interest. CSER was profiled on the front cover of Wired,[32] and in the special Frankenstein issue of Science in 2018.[33]

Sir (Economics), winner of the Blue Planet Prize

Partha Dasgupta

Professor (Geography)

Susan Owens

Professor (Zoology)

Bill Sutherland

Professor (Philosophy).

Jane Heal

CSER Advisors include Cambridge academics such as:


And advisors such as:

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Global Catastrophic Risks

Future of Humanity Institute

Future of Life Institute

Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Official website