CSER

Our expertise has been sought by European, Asian and American governments, leading technology companies and the United Nations. For example, workshops we co-organised on sustainability and climate change at the Vatican fed into the landmark Papal Encyclical on Climate Change... Contributed to establishing the field of long-term AI safety. In 2015 we helped organise the Puerto Rico conference, which led to an open letter from thousands of research leaders backing research into safe and societally beneficial AI. In 2016 we launched the international, £10m, 10 year Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, which is now on the Partnership on AI... They were joined by an international advisory panel including academics like Stephen Hawking. Since our first postdoctoral researchers started in September 2015, we have grown quickly to a full-time team of fourteen. Our research focuses on biological risks, environmental risks, risks from artificial intelligence, and how to manage..

Primary location: Cambridge United Kingdom