Managing Extreme Technological Risks

Summary

This is the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) research page focused on understanding and managing risks from emerging and potentially catastrophic technologies. CSER's work in this area examines how advanced technologies—including AI, biotechnology, and others—could pose existential or civilizational-scale threats, and what governance and policy frameworks might mitigate them.

Key Points

• •CSER studies technologies that could pose extreme or existential risks, including AI, synthetic biology, and other emerging fields
• •Research focuses on identifying pathways by which technological development could lead to catastrophic or irreversible outcomes
• •Work bridges technical risk analysis with policy and governance recommendations to reduce extreme technological risks
• •CSER operates at the intersection of academia and policy, aiming to inform decision-makers about long-term technological threats
• •The research program addresses both near-term and longer-term scenarios where technological risks could exceed human capacity to manage them