Existential Risks Initiative
What is existential risk?
Existential risks, or global catastrophic risks, are risks that could cause the collapse of human civilization. Prominent examples of human-driven global catastrophic risks include but are not limited to:
- nuclear war
- pandemics, bioterrorism, and other threats related to advances in biotechnology
- catastrophic accidents/misuse and other risks related to advances in AI
- effects of extreme climate change and environmental degradation
What we do:
The Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) hosts and promotes academic scholarship and cross-talk regarding existential risks.
Our work falls broadly into two categories:
- Helping people engage with existential risk research through:
- Postdoctoral Fellows
- Summer Student Fellowship for both graduate and undergraduate students
- Working groups that write literature on existential risks
- Bringing together different disciplines in the goal of preventing existential risks
- SERI Annual Symposium
- Collaboration with other X-Risk organizations such as the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the XLab.
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