Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Formation2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Founders
PurposeExistential risk studies
HeadquartersCambridge, England
Parent organization
University of Cambridge
Websitecser.ac.uk

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]

  1. ^ Biba, Erin (1 June 2015). "Meet the Co-Founder of an Apocalypse Think Tank". Scientific American. 312 (6): 26. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0615-26. PMID 26336680.
  2. ^ Lewsey, Fred (25 November 2012). "Humanity's last invention and our uncertain future". Research News. Retrieved 24 December 2012.