Stories of Impact

Artificial Intelligence: Managing Technological Threats

The University of Cambridge's Centre for Existential Risk was established to investigate significant risks that could bring life on Earth as we know it to an end. Lord Martin Rees, one of the Centre’s founders says, “Of the 45 million centuries of the Earth’s history, this one is very special. It is the first century that one species – us – holds the future of the planet in our hands.” Take a fast-paced tour of the Centre's work and thinking on biological risks, environmental risks, and artificial intelligence's obstacles and capabilities.

13:00 | 2017

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