Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
| Formation | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Founders | |
| Purpose | Existential risk studies |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, England |
Parent organization | University of Cambridge |
| Website | cser |
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is a research centre at the University of Cambridge, intended to study possible extinction-level threats posed by present or future technology. The co-founders of the centre are Huw Price (Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge), Martin Rees (the Astronomer Royal and former President of the Royal Society) and Jaan Tallinn (co-founder of Skype, early investor to Anthropic).