Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Formation2012 (2012)
Founders
PurposeExistential risk studies
HeadquartersCambridge, England
Parent organization
University of Cambridge
Websitecser.ac.uk

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).