#ExistentialRisk
6 entries tagged ExistentialRisk.
People (2)
- Jaan Tallinn Jaan Tallinn is the Estonian programmer who helped build Kazaa and Skype and turned the resulting fortune into the largest private funding stream for AI-safety and existential-risk work, cofounding the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute and backing Anthropic and DeepMind.
- Toby Ord Toby Ord is an Australian moral philosopher at Oxford who cofounded Giving What We Can and the effective altruism movement, was a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, and wrote The Precipice, which argues there is a one-in-six chance humanity suffers an existential catastrophe this century.
Organizations (4)
- Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative The Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative is the nonprofit founded in 2017 by Andrew Critch that provides free operational support and grants to university research groups working on existential risk, funded chiefly by Jaan Tallinn and Open Philanthropy.
- Centre for the Study of Existential Risk The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is a Cambridge University research center founded in 2012 by the philosopher Huw Price, the cosmologist Martin Rees, and the Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn to study catastrophic risks from advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and environmental collapse.
- Future of Life Institute The Future of Life Institute is a nonprofit founded in 2014 by Max Tegmark and others to address existential risks from advanced technology, funded with an early ten million dollar gift from Elon Musk, that published the 2023 open letter calling for a pause on giant AI experiments.
- Survival and Flourishing Fund The Survival and Flourishing Fund is the grant-allocation vehicle backed chiefly by Jaan Tallinn that uses a software-assisted method called the S-process to direct money to existential-risk, AI-safety, and longtermist organizations, having organized roughly 150 million dollars in gifts since 2019.