The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
| Created: | 2015-02-02 09:15 |
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| Institution: | Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities |
| Description: | 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. |
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Colin Melvin - 24 October 2016 - Who actually controls public companies and in whose interest are they run?
Colin Melvin - 24 October 2016 - Who actually controls public companies and in whose interest are they run?
Colin Melvin, the Global Head of Stewardship for Hermes Investment...
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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 28 Oct 2016
CSER - 10 June 2016 - Professor Hilary Greaves
Professor Hilary Greaves is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on various issues in ethics while her...
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 21 Jun 2016
CSER - 16 January 2015 - Risks and benefits of gain-of-function experiments in potentially pandemic pathogens
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is pleased to announce a monthly seminar series beginning in January 2015.
The January seminar was given by Professor Marc Lipsitch...
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Created: Mon 2 Feb 2015
CSER - 20 February 2015 - Minds Like Ours: An Approach To AI Risk
Profesor Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London) will give this talk as part of a series of seminars by the Centre for the Study of Existensial Risk.
Writers who speculate...
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 2 Mar 2015
CSER - 22 January 2016 - Kay Firth-Butterfield: Lucid AI’s Ethics Advisory Panel
Lucid is an AI company with an Ethics Advisory Panel which is led by Kay Firth-Butterfield. She will talk about the Panel’s composition and mandate and why the company thinks it...
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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 2 Feb 2016
CSER Seminar Series - 26 February 2016 - Professor Charles Kennel
Professor Charles Kennel is going to highlight the importance of acknowledging that climate change is not only measurable and noticeable by looking at global temperature, but that...
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Created: Thu 3 Mar 2016
David Denkenberger - 2 September 2016 - Feeding Everyone No Matter What
CSER is pleased to welcome Dr David Denkenberger for this talk and seminar
Abstract
A large asteroid or comet impact, super volcanic eruption, or full-scale nuclear war...
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Created: Thu 15 Sep 2016
Dr Toby Ord - Will We Cause Our Own Extinction? Natural versus Anthropogenic Extinction Risks
We are delighted to host Dr Toby Ord (Oxford) for the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk’s next seminar, on Friday 24th April. The talk will be followed by a drinks...
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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 15 Jun 2015
Existential Risk: Surviving the 21st Century
In the coming century, the greatest threats to human survival may come from our own technological developments. However, if we can safely navigate the pitfalls, the benefits that...
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 27 Feb 2014
Heather Roff - 25 September 2017 - Nukes of Hazard
Nukes of Hazard: Mapping the Relative Risks Emerging Technologies Pose to Nuclear Weapons Systems
Despite President Trump’s claims that his first order was “to renovate and...
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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 5 Oct 2017
Laura H. Kahn - 29 November 2017 - Meat, Monkeys, and Mosquitoes: A One Health Perspective on Emerging Diseases​
Agriculture is the foundation of civilization. Food security from agriculture enabled the growth of cities; cities led to nations, and nations discovered the science and...
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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 11 Dec 2017
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
There’s been much talk about AI disrupting the job market and enabling new weapons, but very few scientists talk seriously about the elephant in the room: what will happen once...
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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 2 Nov 2017
Life 3.0: Presentations
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Created: Mon 6 Nov 2017
Prof Heather Douglas - 29 April 2017 - Responsibility and Inequality in a Risky World
Responsibility and Inequality in a Risky World w/Prof Heather Douglas
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We live in a world full of emerging risk. We generate new capacities with the...
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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 23 May 2017
Prof Terrence Sejnowski - 2 May 2017 - Deep Learning: Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence
Deep Learning: Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence
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Deep learning is based on technical advances made by the neural network revolution in the...
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 23 May 2017
Professor Hilary Greaves - 10 May 2017 - Overpopulation: A Driver of Climate Change?
It is often remarked that the significant drivers of climate change include not only high and rising levels of fossil fuel use per person, but also high and rising human...
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 15 May 2017
Professor J. Doyne Farmer - 8 May 2017 - Collective Awareness: A Vision of a New Economics and Risk Reduction
Science gives us a collective awareness that turns unknown unknowns into probabilities and helps us deal with risks and avoid catastrophic scenarios. It is worth distinguishing...
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Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 15 May 2017
Professor Jane Heal - 20 November 2015 - Pushing the Limits
Pushing the Limits - A public lecture with Professor Jane Heal
Abstract
What do theory of evolution, intellectual history and philosophy tell us about what we human beings...
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 26 Nov 2015
Professor Jonathan B. Wiener - 26 July 2017 - The Tragedy of the Uncommons
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In this public lecture, Professor Jonathan B. Wiener, formulates a distinct type of problem: ‘the tragedy of the uncommons’, involving the misperception and...
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 8 Sep 2017
Professor Margaret Boden - 19 June 2015 - Human-level AI: Is It Looming or Illusory?
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is delighted to host Professor Margaret Boden (Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the Department of Informatics, University of...
Collection: The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 23 Jun 2015