Who is Creating Existential Risk? (Why, and Why Should We Care?)

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is a multidisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse.

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In this panel, CSER researcher will discuss an array of different hazards, ranging from AI to bioweapons, climate change to nuclear weapons.

Who or what are the primary creators of global risk? Should we be most concerned about individuals like the lone rogue scientist or hooded hacker, or place more responsibility with larger actors such as large corporations and states? To what extent should we think of actors as holding responsibility for risk, as opposed to it being something that emerges in a more distributed way? Why does this matter, and how might understanding the root causes and responsibilities around global risk help us to better mitigate them? In this panel, researchers from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will discuss these questions for an array of different hazards, ranging from AI to bioweapons, climate change to nuclear weapons. They will consider the sources of existential risk in the past and present, what could change in the future, and what this means for the world.Panellists:Jess WhittlestoneLalitha SundaramTom HobsonLuke Kemp

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Who is Creating Existential Risk? (Why, and Why Should We Care?)

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