About the Centre for the Study of Existential RiskWe are an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risksCentre for the Study of Existential RiskCSER_bfee8102-23f7-11ed-b7c7-0eac1883ea00The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse.University of CambridgeCSER TeamWe bring together some of the best minds from academia, technology and policy to collaborate on our shared challengesMartin ReesCo-founder ~ Lord Martin Rees is the Astronomer Royal. He founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with Huw Price and Jaan Tallinn. He is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. ^ He was formerly the Master of Trinity College and President of the Royal Society. He has extensive experience engaging with both policymakers and the public to better prepare for our long term challenges. ^ He is the author of a number of popular books, including Just Six Numbers and the existential risk-focused Our Final Century? He has written over 500 peer reviewed papers and eight books in total. ^ Personal website: www.martinrees.ukJaan TallinnCo-founder ~ Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with Huw Price and Martin Rees. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organizations. He is also a partner at Ambient Sound Investments (asi.ee), an active angel investor, and has served on the Estonian President’s Academic Advisory Board. ^ He has given a number of high-profile talks highlighting the potential risk from advances in artificial intelligence.Huw PriceCo-founder ~ Huw Price was Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. ^ He co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk in 2012 with Martin Rees and Jaan Tallinn. He was also Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Before moving to Cambridge he was ARC Federation Fellow and Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, where from 2002—2012 he was Director of the Centre for Time. ^ “With so much at stake, we need to do a better job of understanding the risks of potentially catastrophic technologies.” ^ His publications include Facts and the Function of Truth (Blackwell, 1988; 2nd. . OUP, forthcoming), Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point (OUP, 1996), Naturalism Without Mirrors (OUP, 2011) and a range of articles in journals such as Nature, Science, Philosophical Review, Journal of Philosophy, Mind and British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He is also co-editor (with Richard Corry) of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited (OUP, 2007). His René Descartes Lectures (Tilburg, 2008) were recently published as Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism (CUP, 2013), with commentary essays by Simon Blackburn, Robert Brandom, Paul Horwich and Michael Williams. ^ He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow and former Member of Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Past President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. He was consulting editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy from and is an associate editor of The Australasian Journal of Philosophy and a member of the editorial boards of Contemporary Pragmatism, Logic and Philosophy of Science, the Routledge International Library of Philosophy, and the European Journal for Philosophy of Science.CSER StaffSeán Ó hÉigeartaighInterim Executive DirectorJessica BlandDeputy DirectorS. J. BeardAcademic Programme Manager and Senior Research AssociateHaydn BelfieldAcademic Project ManagerPaul IngramAcademic Programme Manager and Senior Research AssociateClare ArnsteinCentre Co-ordinatorLaura ElmerPA and Administrative AssistantEsmé BoothProject CoordinatorReka FogarasiCFI/CSER Finance Co-ordinatorRachel BurgessCFI/CSER AdministratorShahar AvinSenior Research AssociateLalitha SundaramResearch AssociateLauren HoltResearch AssociateLuke KempResearch AssociateEllen QuigleySenior Research AssociateSabin RomanResearch AssociateLara ManiResearch AssociateCatherine RichardsResearch AssociateClarissa Rios RojasResearch AssociateJohn BurdenResearch AssociateTom HobsonResearch AssociateFreya JephcottSenior Research AssociateAlex McLaughlinResearch AssociateAkaraseth PuranasamriddhiResearch AssistantMia SannapureddyResearch AssistantJochem RietveldResearch AssociateCSER Visiting ResearchersDes BrowneVisiting ResearcherEmily Bugden(Remote) Visiting Researcher, September 2020-October 2022Vaska Atta-DarkuaVisiting Researcher, February 2021-October 2022Cecil AbunguVisiting Researcher, September 2021- December 2022Tegan MaharajVisiting Researcher, October 2021-October 2022Georgiana GilgallonVisiting Researcher, January 2022-July 2022Sumaya NurVisiting Researcher, June 2022Pablo SuarezVisiting Researcher, July 2022-November 2022Gordon WooVisiting Researcher, July 2022Coleman SnellVisiting Researcher, August 2022CSER Research AffiliatesRoss GruetzemacherResearch AffiliateAaron TangResearch AffiliateKayla Lucero-MatteucciResearch Affifliate David KruegerResearch AffiliateTom CernevResearch AffiliateNathaniel CookeResearch AffiliateJosé Hernández-OralloResearch AffiliateLena TrabuccoResearch AffiliateJaime SevillaResearch AffiliateAsaf TzachorAlumni & Research AffiliateRumtin SepasspourResearch AffiliateMaurice ChiodoResearch AffiliateCharlotte HammerResearch AffiliateAngus MercerResearch AffiliateSophie DannreutherResearch AffiliateS. M. AmadaeResearch AffiliateShin-Shin HuaResearch AffiliateSam Weiss EvansResearch AffiliateSam HiltonResearch AffiliateCaroline BaylonResearch AffiliateSeth BaumResearch AffiliateYasmine RixResearch AffiliateCarla Zoe CremerResearch AffiliateJulius WeitzdörferAlumni & Research AffiliateOlaf CorryResearch AffiliateCSER AlumniMatthijs MaasResearch Affiliate & Former Research AssociateNatalie JonesFormer Research AssociateJess WhittlestoneFormer Senior Research AssociateAlexa HagertyFormer Research AssociateCatherine RhodesFormer Executive DirectorJake AinscoughFormer Research AssistantPatrick KaczmarekFormer Research AssistantTatsuya AmanoFormer Research AssociateYang LiuFormer Research AssociateAdrian CurrieFormer Research AssociateGorm ShackelfordFormer Research AssociateBonnie WintleFormer Research AssociateCSER Management Board Stephen CaveDirector, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of IntelligenceSteven ConnorDirector, CRASSHPartha DasguptaFrank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, Fellow of St John’s CollegeRobert DoubledayCSER Advisor, Executive Director, Centre for Science and Policy, Bye-Fellow of Christ’s CollegeSusan OwensCSER Advisor, Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy; Fellow Emerita of Newnham CollegeHuw PriceCo-founderMartin ReesCo-founderWilliam SutherlandMiriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology, Fellow of St Catharine’s CollegeJaan TallinnCo-founderCSER Scientific Advisory Board - External Advisors Margaret BodenCSER Advisor, Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of SussexNick BostromCSER Advisor, Professor of Philosophy, Future of Humanity Institute, OxfordDavid ChalmersCSER Advisor, Professor of Philosophy, NYU & ANUDoyne FarmerCSER Advisor, Co-Director, Complexity Economics, Institute for New Economic Thinking (Oxford Martin School), OxfordAlison GopnikCSER Advisor. Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, UC BerkeleyTim PalmerCSER Advisor, Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, University of Oxford & Oxford Martin SchoolPeter PiotCSER Advisor, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineStuart RussellCSER Advisor, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, BerkeleyDana ScottCSER Advisor, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy & Mathematical Logic, Carnegie Mellon UniversityMurray ShanahanCSER Advisor, Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College, LondonPeter SingerCSER Advisor, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton UniversityMax TegmarkCSER Advisor, Professor of Physics, MITJonathan WienerCSER Advisor, Professor of Law, Environmental Policy & Public Policy, Duke UniversityCSER Scientific Advisory Board - Cambridge AdvisorsDavid CleevelyCSER Advisor, Chair of Advisory Council - Centre for Science and PolicyTim CraneCSER Advisor, Professor of Philosophy at the Central European UniversityHermann HauserCSER Advisor, Silicon Fen entrepreneur and investorSean HoldenCSER Advisor, Senior Lecturer in Computer ScienceAdrian KentCSER Advisor, Professor of Quantum PhysicsChris LoweCSER Advisor, Emeritus Professor of BiotechnologyAdrian WellerCSER Advisor, Senior Research Fellow in Machine LearningMitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse_bfee82a6-23f7-11ed-b7c7-0eac1883ea00To study and mitigate existential risks_bfee8404-23f7-11ed-b7c7-0eac1883ea00HumanityCivilizationExistential RiskReduce the risk of human extinction or civilizational collapse_bfee8562-23f7-11ed-b7c7-0eac1883ea00Reduce risk ~ We aim to reduce the risk of human extinction or civilizational collapse.Technologies & ActivityUnderstand risks associated with emerging technologies and human activity_bfee86a2-23f7-11ed-b7c7-0eac1883ea001Study risks ~ We work to understand extreme risks associated with emerging technologies and human activity; and to develop a methodological toolkit to aid us in identifying and evaluating future extreme risks.StrategiesDevelop prevention and mitigation strategies_bfee87e2-23f7-11ed-b7c7-0eac1883ea002AcademicsIndustryPolicymakersCollaboration ~ We develop prevention and mitigation strategies in collaboration with academics, industry and policymakers, so we can gain the benefits and avoid the risks of technologic progress.CommunityFoster a reflective, interdisciplinary, global community_bfee89ae-23f7-11ed-b7c7-0eac1883ea003AcademicsTechnologistsPolicymakersCommunity ~ We foster a reflective, interdisciplinary, global community of academics, technologists and policymakers examining individual aspects of existential risk and coming together to integrate their insights.2022-08-24https://www.cser.ac.uk/about-us/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net