The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Safeguarding our passage through the 21st Century The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is an interdisciplinary research centre focused on the study of risks threatening human extinction that may emerge from technological advances. CSER aims to combine key insights from the best minds across disciplines to tackle the greatest challenge of the coming century: safely harnessing our rapidly-developing technological power. An existential risk is one that threatens the existence of our entire species. The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) — a joint initiative between philosopher Huw Price, cosmologist Martin Rees, and software entrepreneur Jaan Tallinn — was founded on the conviction that these risks require a great deal more scientific investigation than they presently receive. The Centre’s aim is to develop a new science of existential risk, and to develop protocols for the investigation and mitigation of technology-driven existential risks. CSER is hosted within the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), under the management of Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh. The Centre's Management Committee is supported by an international Advisory Board. See the CSER project website for more information. http://cser.org/Image courtesy of Rosa Menkman from Flickr Creative Commons

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Recent Episodes
  • Professor Stuart Russell - The Long-Term Future of (Artificial) Intelligence
    Jun 15, 2015 – 01:19:00
  • Professor Margaret Boden - 19 June 2015 - Human-level AI: Is It Looming or Illusory?
    Jun 23, 2015 – 01:06:00
  • Existential Risk: Surviving the 21st Century
    Feb 27, 2014 – 01:27:00
  • Dr Toby Ord - Will We Cause Our Own Extinction? Natural versus Anthropogenic Extinction Risks
    Jun 15, 2015 – 01:31:00
  • CSER - 20 February 2015 - Minds Like Ours: An Approach To AI Risk
    Mar 2, 2015 – 01:29:00
  • CSER - 16 January 2015 - Risks and benefits of gain-of-function experiments in potentially pandemic pathogens
    Feb 2, 2015 – 01:07:00
  • Professor Jane Heal - 20 November 2015 - Pushing the Limits
    Nov 26, 2015 – 01:27:00
  • CSER - 22 January 2016 - Kay Firth-Butterfield: Lucid AI’s Ethics Advisory Panel
    Feb 2, 2016 – 01:25:00
  • CSER Seminar Series - 26 February 2016 - Professor Charles Kennel
    Mar 3, 2016 – 01:30:00
  • CSER - 10 June 2016 - Professor Hilary Greaves
    Jun 21, 2016 – 01:29:00
  • David Denkenberger - 2 September 2016 - Feeding Everyone No Matter What
    Sep 15, 2016 – 01:23:00
  • Colin Melvin - 24 October 2016 - Who actually controls public companies and in whose interest are they run?
    Oct 28, 2016 – 52:37
  • Professor Neal Katyal - 16 November 2016 - Technology: Transparency vs Privacy
    Nov 21, 2016 – 01:19:00
  • Claire Craig - 12 December 2016 - Extreme risk management in the policy environment
    Jan 3, 2017 – 01:31:00
  • Jo Husbands - 14 December 2016 - Competing Catastrophes: Lessons from Efforts to Mitigate the Risks of “Dual Use” Research
    Jan 3, 2017 – 36:43
  • Peter Kareiva - 13 December 2016 - Avoiding Species Extinction
    Jan 3, 2017 – 51:13
  • Rowan Douglas - 12 December 2016 - Opening Session Part 2
    Jan 3, 2017 – 01:27:00
  • Sam Weiss Evans - 14 December 2016 - Words Of Caution On Making Objects Of Security Concern
    Jan 3, 2017 – 01:26:00
  • Session 1 Q&A - 12 December 2016
    Jan 3, 2017 – 41:39
  • Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh - 12 December 2016 - Artificial Intelligence: Taking the long run seriously
    Jan 3, 2017 – 46:48
  • Tim Newbold - 13 December 2016 - Land Use, Biodiversity Loss And Possible Impacts On Ecosystem Function
    Jan 3, 2017 – 38:57
  • Tim Palmer - 13 December 2016 - Climate Change: Catastrophe, Hoax or Just “Lukewarm”?
    Jan 3, 2017 – 01:02:00
  • Toby Walsh - 12 December 2016 - The Limits of AI
    Jan 3, 2017 – 44:00
  • Victoria Krakovna - 12 December 2016 - AI Safety: Past, Present, Future
    Jan 3, 2017 – 46:10
  • Zabta K. Shinwari - 14 December 2016 - Young Researchers & Responsible Conduct of Science: Successes and failures
    Jan 3, 2017 – 54:24
  • Prof Heather Douglas - 29 April 2017 - Responsibility and Inequality in a Risky World
    May 23, 2017 – 01:24:00
  • Prof Terrence Sejnowski - 2 May 2017 - Deep Learning: Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence
    May 23, 2017 – 01:28:00
  • Professor Hilary Greaves - 10 May 2017 - Overpopulation: A Driver of Climate Change?
    May 15, 2017 – 01:17:00
  • Professor J. Doyne Farmer - 8 May 2017 - Collective Awareness: A Vision of a New Economics and Risk Reduction
    May 15, 2017 – 01:34:00
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