Centre for Study of Existential Risk

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new Cambridge research centre for "extinction-level" risks

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/humanitys-last-invention-and-our-uncertain-future

Centre for Study of Existential Risk , CSER . founders:
Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy
Jaan Tallinn, former software engineer, one of the founders of Skype
Lord Martin Rees, former Master of Trinity College and President of
the Royal Society

http://cser.org/

What better place than Cambridge
cyberspace
online forum - Less Wrong -

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3m6/techniques_for_probability_estimates/

Pandora’s Box’ Moment - Some Highly Advanced Technologies
May Pose A Serious Threat To Our Species - Scientists Say
17 September, 2013

http://www.messagetoeagle.com/humanlastinvent.php

-----Co-founders
Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge
Martin Rees Emeritus Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics, Cambridge
Jaan Tallinn Co-founder of Skype

-----Cambridge advisors
David Cleevely Founding Director, Centre for Science and Policy
Tim Crane Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy
Robert Doubleday Executive Director, Centre for Science and Policy
Hermann Hauser Co-founder, Amadeus Capital Partners
Jane Heal Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
Sean Holden Senior Lecturer, Computing Laboratory; Fellow of Trinity College
David Spiegelhalter Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

-----External advisors
Nick Bostrom Professor of Philosophy, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford
David Chalmers Professor of Philosophy, NYU & ANU
George M Church Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Dana Scott Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy & Mathematical Logic,
Carnegie Mellon University
Murray Shanahan Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College, London
Max Tegmark Professor of Physics, MIT
Jonathan B Wiener Professor of Law, Environmental Policy & Public Policy, Duke University

http://cser.org/

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Re: Centre for Study of Existential Risk

http://lesswrong.com/lw/bxr/muehlhauserwang_dialogue/

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/9iy/new_xrisk_organizations/

(Jan.2012)
Of course: FHI, FutureTech, the Singularity Institute, and Leverage Research.
New: the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (Seth Baum & Tony Barrett).
I've also heard that the following people are working to set up x-risk departments/organizations:
Huw Price at Cambridge
Newton Howard at MIT
Jeffrey Epstein

> My guess is that you can purchase the most x-risk reduction by donating to
> either SI or FHI; the other orgs either don't exist yet or don't have much of a
> track record yet.

FHI : http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/
The Future of Humanity Institute is a multidisciplinary research institute
at the University of Oxford. It enables a select set of leading intellects
to bring the tools of mathematics, philosophy, and science to bear on
big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects.
The Institute belongs to the Faculty of Philosophy and is affiliated
with the Oxford Martin School

http://www.futuretech.ox.ac.uk/

The Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology,
launched in September 2011, is an interdisciplinary horizontal Programme within
the Oxford Martin School in collaboration with the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford
University. The Programme, which is directed by Professor Nick Bostrom, works
closely with the Future of Humanity Institute; the Institute for the Future of Computing,
the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (Professor Bill Roscoe) and the Oxford
e-Research Centre (Professor Anne Trefethen); the Institute for Science and Ethics
(Professor Julian Savulescu); and other Oxford Martin School Institutes.
The Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology analyzes
possibilities related to long-range technological change and the potential social
impacts of future transformative technologies. Research foci include issues
related to the future of computing, existential risks, and methodology, including
the following areas: Changing rates of change; Automation and complexity barriers;
Machine intelligence capabilities and safety; Novel applications and unexpected
societal impacts: Predictability horizons; and Existential risks and future
technologies.

http://intelligence.org/

MIRI?s mission is to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence
has a positive impact.

http://www.leverageresearch.org/

Leverage Research develops high-impact technologies to create a
better future We conduct research, launch businesses, build
student group networks, and more
Our Principles We test projects in parallel to discover and implement
the highest-value ones. Our principles guide the selection of these projects.

http://gcrinstitute.org/

(webpage produces strange delays in my browser)
GCRI studies the breadth of major GCRs: nuclear warfare, climate change, pandemics,
artificial intelligence, and more. We focus on big questions such as the most effective
ways of reducing GCR.
GCRI?s research is nonpartisan, non-ideological, transdisciplinary, and held to
the highest academic standards. The research covers the breadth of GCR topics
and welcomes contributions from any perspective. Researchers or other
professionals who are interested in getting involved should contact Executive
Director Seth Baum (seth [at] gcrinstitute.org).

http://gcrinstitute.org/?s=h5n1

Post Date July 01, 2013 11 Comments
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius speaking to
the World Health Assembly image courtesy of US Mission Geneva/Eric Bridiers.
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On Tuesday 12 June, GCRI hosted an online lecture by Catherine Rhodes entitled
?Sovereign Wrongs: Ethics in the Governance of Pathogenic Genetic Resources?.

http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/6ed509641f7324e6,51a3bb12507ccd33,7ca82e547fe03fc4.html

http://books.google.de/books?id=jn8tAgAAQBAJ

Baum, Seth and Grant Wilson. The ethics of global catastrophic risk from dual-use
bioengineering. Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine, forthcoming, DOI:
10.1615/EthicsBiologyEngMed.2013007629.

http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/6ed509641f7324e6,709fef245eef4861,06d520d747a5c0d1.html