2023 GCRI Fellowship Program

Post Date December 28, 2023
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GCRI is pleased to announce the 2023 Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program aims to highlight exceptional collaborators GCRI had the opportunity to partner with over the course of the year.

This year, we have three 2023 Fellows. One of them is collaborating with GCRI on an innovative research project on psychological and behavioral dimensions of AI governance. The other two are collaborating from their positions in new global catastrophic risk organizations in Africa and the Spanish-speaking world. These organizations are part of a broader initiative to …

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Open Call for Advisees and Collaborators, August 2023

Post Date August 02, 2023
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UPDATE: The open call for advisees and collaborators is now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied. However, anyone interested in seeking our advice and/or collaborating with us is still welcome to contact us as per the instructions below and we will include them in our next advisees and collaborators program.

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GCRI is currently welcoming inquiries from people who are interested in seeking our advice and/or collaborating with us as part of our fifth annual Advising and Collaboration Program. Inquiries may cover any aspect of global …

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2022 GCRI Fellowship Program

Post Date December 09, 2022
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GCRI is pleased to announce the 2022 Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program aims to highlight exceptional collaborators GCRI had the opportunity to partner with over the course of the year. This year, we have four 2022 Fellows.

The 2022 GCRI Fellows include students and senior professionals hailing from four countries around the world. Their contributions include research across a diverse range of research disciplines including nuclear war risk, misinformation, and artificial intelligence scenario mapping. Their contributions are invaluable and we are confident that they will continue …

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Open Call for Advisees and Collaborators, May 2022

Post Date May 17, 2022
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UPDATE: The open call for advisees and collaborators is now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied. However, anyone interested in seeking our advice and/or collaborating with us is still welcome to contact us as per the instructions below and we will include them in our next advisees and collaborators program.

GCRI is currently welcoming inquiries from people who are interested in seeking our advice and/or collaborating with us as part of our fourth annual Advising and Collaboration Program. Inquiries may cover any aspect of global catastrophic …

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GCRI Receives $200,000 for 2022 Work on AI

Post Date December 08, 2021
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I am delighted to announce that GCRI has received a new $200,000 donation to fund work on AI in 2022 from Gordon Irlam. Irlam had previously made donations funding AI project work conducted in 2021, 2020, and 2019.

All of us at GCRI are grateful for this donation. We are excited to continue our work addressing AI risk.

Our projects for 2022 cover the following topics:

Continuation of prior projects: We will continue work on select projects from previous years.

Further support for the AI and global catastrophic risk talent pools: This project extends …

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The Inaugural 2021 GCRI Fellowship Program

Post Date November 13, 2021
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GCRI is delighted to announce the formation of a new Fellowship Program and the members of the inaugural 2021 GCRI Fellowship class. The Fellowship Program recognizes a select group of 12 individuals who have made exceptional contributions to addressing global catastrophic risk in collaboration with GCRI during the year 2021.

The 2021 GCRI Fellows range from undergraduates to senior professionals and hail from seven countries around the world. Their contributions include research across a diverse range of disciplines, policy outreach, program development, and more. We at …

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Global Catastrophic Risk Presentations at the 2021 Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting

Post Date November 12, 2021
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Every December, the Society for Risk Analysis holds its Annual Meeting. It is the leading professional conference for risk analysis. GCRI has participated in the Annual Meeting in most years since 2010, as detailed here.

This year, GCRI is involved in three presentations. Each presentation is led by one or more early-career researchers who connected with GCRI via this year’s advising and collaboration program. GCRI is excited to provide these researchers with the opportunity to attend the SRA Annual Meeting and share their research. The research to be presented …

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GCRI Receives $200,000 for 2021 Work on AI

Post Date February 24, 2021
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I am delighted to announce that GCRI has received a new $200,000 donation to fund work on AI in 2021 from Gordon Irlam. Irlam had previously made donations funding AI project work conducted in 2020 and 2019.

Irlam explains in his own words why he chose to support our work:

“It isn’t enough that we research technical AGI alignment. Any such technical AGI alignment scheme must then be implemented. This is the domain of AGI policy. GCRI is one of the leading U.S. organizations working on AGI …

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GCRI Welcomes Research Associate Andrea Owe

Post Date February 23, 2021
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GCRI is delighted to announce our newest team member, Andrea Owe. Andrea will work as a research associate, contributing primarily to GCRI’s research on ethics and artificial intelligence.

Andrea holds an M.Phil in Development, Environment and Cultural Change from the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo, and a B.A. in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. At the University of Oslo, she was an Arne Næss Stipend holder and researcher at the Arne Næss Programme on …

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GCRI Receives $209,000 for General Support

Post Date January 27, 2021
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I am delighted to announce that GCRI has received $209,000 in a new grant from Jaan Tallinn via the Survival and Flourishing Fund. The grant is for general support for GCRI. We at GCRI are grateful for this donation. We look forward to using it to advance our mission of developing the best ways to confront humanity’s gravest threats.

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