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CLTR is a notable UK policy organization bridging AI safety and catastrophic risk concerns with government policymaking; relevant for understanding the institutional landscape of AI governance in the UK.
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Summary
CLTR is a UK-based independent think tank headquartered in Whitehall, focused on transforming global resilience to extreme risks including AI-related threats, engineered pandemics, and threats to democratic institutions. They work to provide actionable, impartial policy advice to government, drawing on academic catastrophic risk research, private sector risk management, and effective altruism principles. Their approach treats resilience-building as cost-effective 'insurance' against low-probability, high-impact events.
Key Points
- •CLTR focuses on extreme risks with global reach: AI-engineered pandemics, AI control handover, AI threats to democracy, and AI failures in critical infrastructure.
- •Founded to address the structural problem of governments prioritizing immediate political issues over long-term policy challenges.
- •Operates as an independent, non-partisan think tank providing 'extra hands' expertise to UK Government on catastrophic and existential risks.
- •Draws inspiration from global catastrophic risk academia, private sector risk management, technology governance, and effective altruism's problem-selection framework.
- •Positions the UK as a potential policy test-bed, international convener, and ally for US/EU on extreme risk resilience.
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# About
## CLTR is an independent think tank with a mission to transform global resilience to extreme risks. We are based in the heart of Whitehall.
**Extreme risks are high impact threats with global reach.** They have the potential to devastate lives and economies around the world. Examples include natural or AI-engineered pandemics, the handover of increasing control of important decisions to AI, AI-driven threats to democracies, or major accidents from the use of AI in critical national infrastructure. Other examples, which are outside our current focus, include nuclear weapon use and extreme climate impacts.
These events are made more likely by increasing levels of **global volatility, digital dependence and geopolitical fragmentation.**
While Covid-19 demonstrates the impact that extreme risks can have, **we are likely to face greater risks within our lifetimes.** Threats from misuse of biotechnology or powerful AI systems would likely be even more destructive, and we are even less well prepared for them.
The UK Government, alongside other organisations, has made substantial progress in building resilience in the wake of Covid-19 and extraordinary AI progress such as ChatGPT. **But much more needs to be done, and quickly.**
By making relatively **small and inexpensive changes,** we can reduce the likelihood of extreme events occurring, and transform our ability to respond if they do.
We think of building resilience to extreme risks as **an insurance policy — for the UK and the wider world.**
### Founded to support policymakers
CLTR was conceived as a response to the policymakers’ attention constantly being drawn towards dealing with immediate political issues rather than addressing long-term policy challenges. Prioritising the urgent over the important is a permanent feature of modern government.
At the same time, hugely significant trends and developments have been playing out — not least the extraordinary pace of technological change, coupled with a darkening geopolitical outlook. These have changed dramatically the range and scale of risks which Government faces. While the recent pandemic demonstrates the impact that extreme risks can have, we are likely to face greater risks within our lifetimes – particularly from misuse of biotechnology or powerful AI systems.
CLTR was set up five years ago with a vision for a safe and flourishing world with high resilience to extreme risks. We are independent and non-partisan, ensuring that Government receives genuinely impartial thinking. We provide expertise to Government giving it the “extra hands” it needs while trying to reflect the experience, ideas and values of everyone working in the field. Above all, we want to provide actionable policy steps which are practical and solutions-focused. We believe that the UK can play an outsized role, operating as
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