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"Creativity can break down the inertia we often feel when faced with such frightening risks." @laramani14 speaking on world building at @UCamEnterprise Creative Cambridge Annual Conference.

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@CSERCambridge

7 months

We're pleased to announce @CecilYongo has joined us as a Research Affiliate! Cecil is a PhD student at @Cambridge_Uni , Coordinator of the @ILINAProgram & Research Affiliate with the @legalpriority

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Welcome to CSER visitor Sumaya Nur @mayaanuur ! Sumaya has been a remote visitor since June 2022 & is visiting CSER in person for the next few weeks. Sumaya's research interests lie in the intersection of law and artificial intelligence.

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Mr Peter Ho of Singapore's Centre for Strategic Futures calls them Black Elephants: A problem that's visible to all, but noone wants to deal with so they pretend it's not there. When it blows up, we all feign surprise & behave as if it were a black swan.

Black Elephants (CCCR2018)

Peter Ho is the Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures, a Senior Fellow in the Civil Service College, and a Visiting Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew S...

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Elsa B. Kania

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This was not a black swan, but rather a gray rhino, so to speak—a crisis that was terribly predictable and generally anticipated, but for which preparation remained utterly inadequate.

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Welcome to CSER visitor @MichelleMalonza ! Michelle Malonza is a Research Associate at the @ILINAProgram . At CSER, she will be working on an OpenAI funded project on how democratic societies can responsibly integrate AI into their critical infrastructure.

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10 years ago today, Huw Price and Jaan Tallinn met in a taxi in Copenhagen and realised the need for a centre dedicated to existential risk. Happy birthday to CSER!

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What makes you hopeful? "Rather than just focusing on what's going on now, looking at the history of humanity & how that's been - there's some proof of progress" Hear @CecilYongo talk more about about his journey into global catastrophic research👇

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We are excited to announce that Prof Matthew Connelly @mattspast will join us as Director of CSER from July 2023. His most recent role was as professor of international and global history at Columbia University. Read more: (1/3)

CSER new Director: Professor Matthew Connelly

A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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2 years

Many happy returns to CSER co-founder @LordMartinRees . Thanks for a decade of stewardship and a pleasure to have you in the office today!

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We're excited to announce the publication of "The Era of Global Risk"! This book presents essays that explore aspects of global risk, with the potential to bring about human extinction & civilization collapse. Download for free or buy the book below:

The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies

This innovative and comprehensive collection of essays explores the biggest threats facing humanity in the 21st century; threats that cannot be contained or controlled and that have the potential to...

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2 years

The Keynote from @LordMartinRees begins: "Covid-19 has been a wakeup call with an estimated cost of $20 trillion. It's worth paying an insurance premium to reduce the risk of these mega-disasters"

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Looking to build your understanding of existential and global catastrophic risk? Here’s a 🧵 with some of our favourite papers and media!

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Geoffrey Hinton's lecture will be starting in about 10 minutes. "Two Paths to Intelligence" has already filled up the lecture theatre here. Follow along with us for the key insights! Organised along with @LeverhulmeCFI , @Cambridge_Eng , and @CSERCambridge . #2Paths .

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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59 international co-authors from 29 orgs, including tech companies and academic groups, came together to write this report. It suggests 10 mechanisms for how AI developers can make more verifiable claims in three areas: institutional, software & hardware.

Toward Trustworthy AI: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims

The increasingly widespread application of AI research has brought growing awareness of the risks posed by AI systems, and recognition that existing regulations and norms in industry and academia are...

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Our major new report - The Mailicious Use of Artificial Intelligence. Written with 26 co-authors across 14 institutions incl. @FHIOxford @OpenAI @CNASdc @EFF

New Report: Malicious Use of AI

26 experts on the security implications of emerging technologies have jointly authored a ground-breaking report sounding the alarm about the potential malicious use of artificial intelligence.

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Excited for Toby Ord's new book! “the international body responsible for the continued prohibition of bioweapons (the Biological Weapons Convention) has an annual budget of just $1.4 million [£1.1m] – less than the average McDonald’s restaurant”.

Focus on existential threats, philosopher tells researchers

Toby Ord urges academics to reflect far more deeply on the risks of everything from asteroids to rogue artificial intelligence

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"I expect that a vast and extraordinary future lies ahead if we can navigate the challenges and opportunities posed by new technologies in the upcoming century."

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The ‘Lessons from COVID-19’ project at CSER aims to assess the global pandemic response and distill key lessons from this response to improve the prevention and mitigation of global catastrophic risks (GCRs) in the future. Find out more here:

Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

@CSERCambridge

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This week is our first virtual conference! Over the next 4-days, we'll be revisiting @LordMartinRees 's 'Our Final Century' through panel discussions with some incredible speakers #CCCR2020 . A thread ⬇️

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@CSERCambridge

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CSER and @FHIOxford researchers ( @LukaKemp @pcihon @matthijsMmaas @HaydnBelfield @CarlaZoeC ) submitted advice to the @UNSGdigicoop on the international governance of AI. It lays out the challenges and offers some options for global goverance

Advice to UN High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation

CSER and FHI researchers submitted advice to the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation. We propose some options for the international governance of AI.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

@CSERCambridge

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New paper! In ‘Seven Questions for Existential Risk Studies’, @CSERCambridge researchers @lalithasun , @matthijsMmaas , and @CSERSJ pose a set of open methodological, epistemic, ethical and strategic questions for the existential risk studies community to grapple with.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

@CSERCambridge

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We’re pleased to announce the call for abstracts has opened for CSER’s Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk in September 2024! Find out more👇 #CallForAbstracts #CCCR24

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Thank you to @CecilYongo , @Nandini___S and @HaydnBelfield for a fantastic talk last night about their journeys into existential risk research! The recording will be available on our YouTube channel soon #CamFest

Cecil Yongo

@CecilYongo

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Had a great time. Super grateful to the people at @CSERCambridge for planning this and inviting me. For good reason, CSER’s been one of the best things that ever happened in my professional life!

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Thank you to Professor Benoît Pelopidas @NKnowledges for his fantastic lecture in June about Nuclear Weapons choices in an age of Existential Risk! Watch the recording below:

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@CSERCambridge

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We are (unfortunately) not the Centre for Terminator Studies.

Prof. Dr Beth Singler.

@BVLSingler

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Oops, someone's taken a headline rather too seriously in their undergraduate dissertation @CSERCambridge !

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Our major new report with 26 co-authors. The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Welcome to Day 3 of the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk ( #cccr2022 )! Today we're talking about Global Solutions. We'll be hearing about all things policy and decision making. Follow along here:

Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk - Day 3

Thursday, 21st AprilGLOBAL SOLUTIONS2:11 Paul Ingram, How can we best respond?26:23 Clarissa Rios Rojas, CSER’s Approach to Policy Outlining the co-creation ...

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

@CSERCambridge

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Three exciting research positions at CSER, Cambridge. Topics: AI safety, responsible innovation and tech risk, and global population and sustainability. Deadline August 26th. Please share the word!

CSER careers

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CSER's @lalithasun and @Simon_Beard discuss existential risk with BBC's excellent @DavidEdmonds100 and scholars @anderssandberg , @xriskology @karin_kuhlemann and @SethBaum tonight - not to be missed!

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, Will humans survive the century?

What is the chance of the human race surviving the 21st century?

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New paper from @LukaKemp in PNAS 'Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios'

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios | Proceedings of the National...

Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understoo...

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International collaborative mechanisms are needed to prepare for threats to human existence.

The Need for Global Protections Against Existential Risks | The Regulatory Review

International collaborative mechanisms are needed to prepare for threats to human existence.

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The 2022 Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk #cccr2022 is about to kick off with a keynote from @LordMartinRees ! We'll be live-tweeting the whole thing, follow along and join the conversation

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Do you want to lead a team of 25 researchers, bringing specialist knowledge in geology, biology, law, politics and philosophy to the challenge of avoiding catastrophe in the 21st Century? CSER is looking for a Director, funded for five years:

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Now - @laramani14 on "‘What works’ for global catastrophic risk communication?" How we're communicating, challenges, methods & tools, initial lessons Starts with the iconic Doomsday Clock from @BulletinAtomic 75 years of communication, >35 million readers a year

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Learn more about personal journeys into global catastrophe research with @CecilYongo ( @ILINAProgram ), @Nandini___S ( @ERA_Cambridge ) & CSER's @HaydnBelfield 📅19th March ⏰5.30pm 🌎Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge Register for tickets here: #CamFest

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Check out this great new video - an overview of our work on existential risk:

Existential Risk: Managing Extreme Technological Risk

Of the 45 million centuries of the Earth’s history, this one is very special. It is the first century that one species – us – hold the future of the planet i...

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

@CSERCambridge

5 years

A great choice - Turing was a pioneer, visionary and hero

Bank of England

@bankofengland

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Introducing the face of the new £50 note - the father of computer science, Alan Turing.” Find out more #Turing50 #ThinkScience

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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2 years

We're hiring! We're seeking a part-time Research Assistant to support the analysis of biological security policy and emerging biological technologies. Deadline 29 May 2022 Apply below:

Research Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term)

Deadline: 29 May 2022 The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) invites applications for a part-time Research Assistant (0.6 FTE, equivalent to 22.2 hours per week) to support analysis of...

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Meet the Researcher: Matthijs Maas. Matthijs looks at how we should govern high-risk technological change, in a changing world, using governance tools which may themselves be left changed by technology, for better or worse. Read the profile here:

Meet the Researcher: Matthijs Maas

A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

@CSERCambridge

8 years

AI Recreates Nobel Prize-Winning Physics Experiment - In One Hour

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Our 2nd major Bioengineering horizon scan has just been published! Some of the 20 issues identified: -Regulation of genomic data -Increased philanthropic funding -Malicious uses of neurochemicals -Crops for changing climates -Agricultural gene drives

Point of View: Bioengineering horizon scan 2020

A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

@CSERCambridge

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We're hiring! We're seeking a full-time Senior Research Associate with expertise in the long-term impacts, risks, and governance of artificial intelligence. Deadline 30 January 2022. More information and how to apply here:

Senior Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Deadline: 27 February 2022 The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) invites applications for a full-time Senior Research Associate with expertise in the long-term impacts, risks, and...

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Read the @CSERCambridge & @LeverhulmeCFI response to the UK Government AI regulation: A pro-innovation approach white paper @S_OhEigeartaigh @stephenjcave @HaydnBelfield @jesswhittles @CSERSJ @DrEleanorDrage @KerryAMcInerney

Response to AI regulation: A pro-innovation approach white paper

A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks.

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Our researchers responded to the EU's AI White Paper. The key recommendation is to keep the proposed framework of mandatory conformity assessments for high-risk AI applications carried out by independent testing centres - and not water it down.

Response to the European Commission’s consultation on AI

A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks.

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Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk has a new website.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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3 years

CSER is looking for a new Deputy Director! The role will combine leadership, academic, and management responsibilities for CSER and support the Executive Director by assuming operational responsibility for day-to-day activities. Find out more:

Deputy Director (Fixed Term, 3 years)

Deadline: 4 July 2021 The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) invites applications for a new Deputy Director role, which combines leadership, academic, and management responsibilities for...

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Digital vs Biological Intelligence & AI Geoff Hinton joins us on 25th May to discuss reasons for concern surrounding AI. 🗓️25 May 2023, 6pm

Two Paths to Intelligence

Lecture by Geoffrey Hinton on two paths to intelligence, and the possibility of digital intelligence surpassing biological.

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@CSERCambridge

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Congratulations to @laramani14 for being awarded the @GeolSoc Murchison Fund for her considerable contributions to 'hard' rock studies!

Lara Mani awarded the Geological Society's Murchison Fund

CSER's Dr Lara Mani has been awarded the prestigious Geological Society's Murchison Fund Award for her contribution to hard rock studies.

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CSER are in Geneva this week for the 9th Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention. States Parties have spoken about verification, scientific expert groups & enhancing Implementation Support Unit capacities. Still a great deal of discussion ahead #BWCRevCon

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Dr Lalitha Sundaram is representing the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the Biologial Weapons Convention #MSP2017 #1972BWC @BWCISU

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Can Artificial Intelligence Be Ethical? @PeterSinger

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The UK will have the world’s first national advisory body for artificial intelligence. We have long been supporters of such a Centre:

Welcoming new AI Centre

The UK will have the world’s first national advisory body for artificial intelligence.

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Sessions recordings from our Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk 2020 are now available to watch on our youtube channel! Details in the thread ⬇️ #CCCR2020

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Paul Noth cartoon 'Existential Risk' from the New Yorker December 7, 2015 #xrisk

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Oldie but a goodie. @neiltyson and @josh_um_clark discuss the end of the world on @StarTalkRadio

Cosmic Queries – The End of The World, with Josh Clark - StarTalk Radio

Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and Josh Clark answer your fan-submitted questions about how humanity, and the world, will end.

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Welcome to new CSER visitor @nemocentric Thomas Moynihan! Tom works on the history of ideas, primarily the ways changing theories about the wider universe have transformed human self-conceptions and practical priorities throughout the past.

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We are delighted to announce that CSER’s 2022 Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk will take place from 19th-21st April and registration for online participants is now open! Visit the conference website below for more information:

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3 job opportunities to research existential risk @Cambridge_Uni Closing date: 10 November 2019 -Research Associate in Public Policy for Global Risk -Research Associate In Communication & Outreach for Global Risk -Research Assistant: Global Risk

CSER careers

Work with us!

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Geoffrey Hinton warns of the dangers of instrumental sub-goals such as deception and power-seeking behaviours.

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Well done to @alexklein_ , @g_dhaliwal1 & @askarkleefeldt for presenting their paper “Biosecurity-By-Design to Safeguard Emerging Bioeconomies” at a side event of the 2023 BWC Meeting of States Parties in Geneva last week! #NextGenBiosecurity @ODA_Geneva

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🏆 Congratulations to the winners of this year's #NextGenBiosecurity : @g_dhaliwal1 , @askarkleefeldt , and @alexklein_ ! Learn more about their winning paper on biosecurity-by-design. 🔽

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We're looking for a new Academic Programme Manager! As a Senior Research Associate role, it will combine academic, management and administrative responsibilities and is a great opportunity to make a real impact. Find out more:

Senior Research Associate: Academic Programme Manager (Fixed Term)

Deadline: 4 October 2021 The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) invites applications for an Academic Programme Manager, with either part-time or full-time appointments considered (0.6...

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How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet @nature covers two important new papers from Robock, Toon and others

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We're also excited to announce @harari_yuval has joined CSER as a Research Fellow, the first appointment in the @Cambridge_ITH Distinguished Fellowship programme!

Professor Yuval Harari joins CSER as Research Fellow

A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks.

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

@CSERCambridge

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Disruption, Democracy and the Global Order Watch the lecture below by @harari_yuval on today's most urgent global challenges! With discussion from @mattspast @gilliantett of @Kings_College and students from the Cambridge Existential Risks Initiative

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Exciting new paper by CSER's @matthijsMmaas and @LeverhulmeCFI Student Fellow @charlotte_stix ! "Bridging the gap: the case for an ‘Incompletely Theorized Agreement’ on AI policy"

Bridging the gap: the case for an ‘Incompletely Theorized Agreement’ on AI policy

AI and Ethics - Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) raises a wide array of ethical and societal concerns. Accordingly, an appropriate policy approach is urgently needed. While there has...

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Shahar Avin's Civilisation 5 superintelligence mod is out and freely available. Explores AI & tech tree dynamics. Encourages players to invest in AI safety research alongside AI capabilities research.

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Join us at @Cambridge_Fest for an exciting online discussion about our upcoming book 'The Era of Global Risk' 🌍 3pm GMT, Tuesday 21st March 2023 🕒 @LordMartinRees @lalithasun @laramani14 @KaylaMatteucci @ndconnell Reserve your place now at:

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Want to learn more about CSER's research? ⭐️Climate Change⭐️ This infographic outlines some of CSER’s research around the existential and globally catastrophic potential of climate change as a risk driver, risk multiplier, and risk mitigation opportunity

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Congratulations to @matthijsMmaas who has been recognized by @GCRInstitute as one of their GCRI Fellows in their inaugural 2021 GCRI Fellowship class

The Inaugural 2021 GCRI Fellowship Program | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute

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Congratulations to the first ever class of GCRI Fellows!

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Welcome to CSER visitor Elizabeth Cooper! Elizabeth works as the Deputy Director at the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. At CSER, she will work closely with the management team on fundraising, diversity & inclusion, & field-building initiatives

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Congratulations to CSER research affiliate @rumtin on launching @globalshieldhq with co-founders @ArielConn and Jared Brown!

Rumtin

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I'm really proud to announce that I've launched a new organization, Global Shield, with my co-founders @ArielConn and Jared Brown. We advocate for government policy on global catastrophic risk. The risk is only growing, so Global Shield is about getting government to act.

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29 co-authors. 20 emerging issues. 1 big paper.

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We're excited to join @LeverhulmeCFI & @CHIA_Cambridge as @Cambridge_ITH ! The Institute supports research that investigates the opportunities & challenges technology transformations pose for our societies, our environment & our world

Institute for Technology and Humanity: Ensuring technology benefits humanity

Cambridge launches the Institute for Technology and Humanity

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CSER's Lauren Holt on the strange and beautiful ways humanity could re-engineer life

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Our panel discussion on "Doom and Doubt: Uncertain Futures & Open Questions about Existential Risk" is kicking off with @matthijsMmaas , @lalithasun and @CSERSJ - chaired by @S_OhEigeartaigh . We'll be live-tweeting it on this thread 🧵1/many

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Had a lovely time at the @CSERCambridge holiday lunch yesterday! ☃️

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Some of our AI risk researchers argue: "The European Commission is proposing the world’s first regulation on AI - a historic opportunity to set global standards which will influence how this technology shapes our world."

Comment on the EU's world-first AI regulation: "an historic opportunity"

The European Commission is proposing the world’s first regulation on AI - a historic opportunity to set global standards which will influence how this technology shapes our world.

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One audience member asks how HInton sees the trade-off between open source and closed source AI with relation to risk. Hinton responds: "How do you feel about open source development of nuclear weapons?" "As soon as you open source it [AI], people can do a lot of crazy things".

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Welcome to new CSER team member @alexklein_ ! Alex researches biological security & is currently undertaking a PhD in Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy at UCL. Previously she worked in academic publishing as a Development Editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Researchers from CSER and @LeverhulmeCFI were involved in writing the colossal @IEEEorg 'Ethically Aligned Design'

IEEE Ethically Aligned Design published

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Exciting news! CSER's Shahar Avin will lead a new grant programme from the UK Government and @AISafetyInst on systemic AI safety

AI Safety Institute

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We are announcing new grants for research into systemic AI safety. Initially backed by up to £8.5 million, this program will fund researchers to advance the science underpinning AI safety. Read more:

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New paper from @FHIOxford recasts 'Oracle AI' problem as a cryptographic problem.

Good and safe uses of AI Oracles

It is possible that powerful and potentially dangerous artificial intelligence (AI) might be developed in the future. An Oracle is a design which aims to restrain the impact of a potentially...

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Meet the Researcher: Tom Hobson. Tom’s research is concerned with understanding how societies imagine the future, how existing technologies shape this vision, and how they endeavour to secure a vision of the future. Read the profile here:

Meet the Researcher: Tom Hobson

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👀Coming soon! On 8th Sept we'll be launching our Cambridge history of existential risks map! Use the interactive map to discover landmarks related to X-Risks that we research including disease outbreaks, environmental change & technology @OpenCambridgeUK #OpenCambridge

Open Cambridge

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The 📽️ says it all - bookings for #OpenCambridge are now open! Not all events require booking but those that do are clearly marked with information on how to book. View the full programme and plan your September now ➡️ @heritageopenday @Cambridge_Uni

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CSER welcomes the @DeepMindAI @MSFTResearch @Facebook @amazon @IBMResearch Partnership on AI - a v exciting step!

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Why is the Doomsday Clock the closest its ever been to Midnight? @RachelBronson1 President & CEO of @BulletinAtomic explains why in this Public Lecture

Why is the Doomsday Clock the closest its ever been to Midnight?

Explained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' President and CEO, Rachel Bronson, in this Public Lecture for the Centre for the Study of Existential Ris...

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Nick Bostrom on cryogenic research, human enhancement ethics and sentient machines. #AI #MachineLearning

Nick Bostrom: ‘We are like small children playing with a bomb’

Sentient machines are a greater threat to human existence than climate change, according to the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom

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Welcome to new CSER visitor Nathaniel Cooke! Nathaniel works on theoretical, systemic, and sociopolitical approaches to existential risk, as well as societal collapse and resilience, and is also a current research affiliate at CSER.

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'A Science of Global Risk' is an interdisciplinary project at CSER, and aims to develop robust methods for studying high impact/low probability events, engage with a truly global audience and translate research into policy impact.

A Science of Global Risk

Global risks share many common challenges: how to develop robust methods for studying high impact/low probability events, how to engage with a truly global audience and how to translate research into...

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From surveillance to superintelligence - @LeverhulmeCFI 's Stephen Cave and CFI and CSER's Sean Ó hÉigeartaigh on bridging near- and long-term concerns around AI. @NatMachIntell #AIethics

Bridging near- and long-term concerns about AI

Nature Machine Intelligence - Debate about the impacts of AI is often split into two camps, one associated with the near term and the other with the long term. This divide is a mistake — the...

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. @Cambridge_Uni will divest from all direct & indirect fossil fuel investments by 2030. Its £3.5bn Endowment Fund (biggest in Europe) will ramp up investments in renewables. Massive achievement & tribute to years of research & debate by students & staff.

Cambridge University to completely divest from fossil fuels

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Amnesty International: "We are also interested in issues around the long-term safety of AI, including potential existential risks, even if these are relatively remote possibilities."

amnestypress

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AI has many potential pros & cons for human rights. Today @Amnesty joins @PartnershipAI , to help shape AI for good:

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📢We're Recruiting! We have 2 positions available exploring natural hazards & the relationship between climate change & mitigation of X-Risk Research Associate in Environmental Risk Senior Research Associate in Environmental Risk Find out more below:

CSER careers

Work with us!

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Terrible news, and so close to home. We urgently need to address this climate chaos by reducing carbon emissions.

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❗Breaking News❗ A new provisional recording of 38.7 °C at Cambridge Botanic Garden has been received from yesterday It will be quality controlled & if validated would be the highest temperature officially recorded in the UK More here: #UKHottestDay

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New paper by Aaron Tang and @LukaKemp investigates stratospheric aerosol injection's contribution to Global Catastrophic Risk. "If high levels of warming are hidden by SAI, then the system could represent a planetary Sword of Damocles" Read more here:

A Fate Worse Than Warming? Stratospheric Aerosol Injection and Global Catastrophic Risk

Injecting particles into atmosphere to reflect sunlight, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), represents a potential technological solution to the threat of climate change. But could the cure be...

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Important new breakthrough from @OpenAI . We welcome the caution and responsibility shown in taking possible malicious uses seriously, and pausing from full publication to allow debate and discussion.

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We've trained an unsupervised language model that can generate coherent paragraphs and perform rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization — all without task-specific training:

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"The More Who Die, the Less We Care" Paul and Scott Slovic joins CSER to talk about how communication can help overcome insensitivity to large-scale humanitarian challenges by turning numbness into poignancy. 15 March 2022 6pm Register here to watch:

Paul Slovic and Scott Slovic "The More Who Die, the Less We Care"

The More Who Die, the Less We Care: Confronting the Deadly Arithmetic of Compassion and the World’s Urgent Problems

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New bbc article on risks to humanity by CSER's @Simon_Beard and Lauren Holt!

What are the biggest threats to humanity?

Why asteroids and volcanoes aren't the greatest problems facing life on Earth.

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Great talks from CSER+CFI's Jess Whittlestone and Haydn Belfield at #AIES2020 ! Papers online here:

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The Law, Technology and Disruption Conference is happening online this weekend! On March 20th, @matthijsMmaas and Hin-Yan Liu will be presenting their paper, "Solving for X?’ Towards a problem-finding framework to ground longterm governance strategies for artificial intelligence"

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This paper presents seven global #pinchpoints where a clustering of global critical systems converges with regions of volcanic activity, presenting a new landscape for catastrophic volcanic risk.

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It's finally summer!🌞Over the next few weeks, CSER will be sharing some of our favourite papers, articles, podcasts and other media about Existential Risk. See the thread below for this week’s pick 👇

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