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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

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Not to be confused with Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is a research centre at the University of Cambridge that studies possible threats posed in the future by existing technology. The centre was founded by Huw Price (a philosophy professor at Cambridge), Martin Rees (cosmology and astrophysics professor and former President of the Royal Society) and Jaan Tallinn (a computer programmer and co-founder of Skype).[1]

A notable study of the centre investigated the risk of a robot uprising a la The Terminator. Professor Price said, "It seems a reasonable prediction that some time in this or the next century intelligence will escape from the constraints of biology".[2]

References

  1. ^ Kesterton, Michael (28 November 2012). "Cambridge to open centre for Terminator studies". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  2. ^ Gaskell, Adi (27 November 2012). "Risk of a Terminator Style Robot Uprising to be Studied". Technorati. Retrieved 2 December 2012.

See also

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