Striving for a safe and flourishing world
An independent think tank with a mission to transform global resilience to extreme risks
Our Vision
Our vision is a safe and flourishing world with high resilience to extreme risks, such as those from pandemics and emerging technologies.
Our Mission
Our mission is to transform global resilience to extreme risks — both in the UK and internationally. Our core focus areas are AI risk, biological risk and government risk management
We help governments and other institutions transform resilience to extreme risks by:
Our Latest Work
Artificial Intelligence
Risks stemming from improper application, unintended behaviours of AI systems in critical domains, and the broader socioeconomic impacts of AI on both the economy and society.
How the UK AI bill can improve AI security
An AI bill that builds preparedness for transformative AI can can have global impacts.
AI policy needs an increased focus on incident preparedness
Mitigating extreme AI risks requires more than preventative measures. Urgent attention needs to be directed to incident preparedness.
Biosecurity
Risks arising from natural pandemics, laboratory leaks, bioweapons, and ‘dual-use’ research — advancements with the potential for both beneficial and harmful applications.
Strategic Defence Review 2024: Call for Evidence
We submitted detailed recommendations to the Ministry of Defence’s Strategic Defence Review 2024, focused on Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) threats expected
Securing Europe’s Biotechnology Future: Our European Biotech Act Submission
We submitted recommendations to the European Commission’s consultation on the European Biotech Act, emphasising that security and innovation are complementary objectives.
Risk Management
Global-reaching, high-impact threats possess the potential to cause widespread devastation to both lives and economies on a global scale.
Ten Points to consider for the Resilience Strategy
We are publishing a 10-point resilience manifesto in advance of publication of the UK Government’s Resilience Strategy.