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- The existential crisis is thought to be a modern phenomenon that may be related to both the abundance of life choices available and a societal decline in shared traditional systems of value and meaning. Lacking such a system to guide one in choosing among various options can bring on an internal struggle—an “agony of choice.”
The UChicago Existential Risk Laboratory’s mission is to understand and mitigate existential and global catastrophic risks while training the next generation of scholars and policymakers. Our work is focused on preventing events that could result in hundreds of millions of deaths or permanently curtail civilization’s long-term potential.
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Existential risks, or global catastrophic risks, are risks that could cause the collapse of human civilization. Prominent examples of human-driven global catastrophic risks include but are not limited to: nuclear war. pandemics, bioterrorism, and other threats related to advances in biotechnology.
A Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of existential risks that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse.
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk was established by Cambridge University in 2012, which prompted its replication in other universities. [ 17 ] This initial rendition of existential risks established what has been termed the 'first wave' of ERS. [ 14 ]
Apr 4, 2024 · The 2023 Stanford Existential Risks (SERI) conference delved deep into various fields, from epistemology to psychology, aiming to shed light on strategies for navigating these complex threats.
May 14, 2024 · A drop in international students and income from domestic tuition fees have left some universities facing an existential crisis
Feb 28, 2024 · It is what IPR education researcher and statistician Larry Hedges has called “an existential crisis” for science. Where does addressing the replication crisis stand today? Coming from multiple disciplines, four of our faculty experts shed light on how science can repair itself.
