BERKELEY EXISTENTIAL RISK INITIATIVE

BERI is an independent 501(c)(3) public charity. Our mission is to improve human civilization's long-term prospects for survival and flourishing. Currently, our main strategy is collaborating with university research groups working to reduce existential risk ("x-risk"), by providing them with free services and support... We try to help each of our collaborators work more effectively by spending money to support them in whatever way they need to pursue their mission (which we've vetted for relevance to our mission). The idea is to make operations faster and more flexible for these groups-not only to make them more directly effective, but also to improve morale by unblocking tasks and projects they care about that are hard to do efficiently through other means (e.g. existing university administration channels)... We think of these organizations and their surrounding networks as forming what we call "the x-risk ecosystem"- a network of think tanks, non-profits, individual researchers,..