Dive Summary:
- Cambridge University will open the Center for the Study of Existential Risk to examine the four most significant threats to the human race — artificial intelligence, climate change, nuclear war and rogue biotechnology.
- The center will study "low-probability high-risk" events that could lead to the extinction of the human race such as the phenomenon portrayed in the "Terminator" films, in which super-intelligent robots seek to eliminate the human race.
- The center is being developed by Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, Cambridge philosophy professor Huw Price and the cosmologist Lord Rees, who has warned of the potential mass extinction of humanity by 2100.
From the article:
"Cambridge University is to open a center for "Terminator studies" where top scientists will study threats posed to humanity by robots.
The Center for the Study of Existential Risk is being co-launched by astronomer royal Lord Rees, one of the world’s leading cosmologists. It will probe the “four greatest threats” to the human species, given as: artificial intelligence, climate change, nuclear war and rogue biotechnology. ..."
