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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:

Helping decision-makers and the wider public to understand extreme risks.
Providing expert advice and red-teaming on policy decisions.
Convening cross-sector conversations and workshops related to extreme risks.
Developing and advocating for policy recommendations and effective risk management frameworks and systems.
Providing an exchange for specialist knowledge, including by facilitating expert placements into government.

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.

Why frontier AI safety frameworks need to include risk governance


This report outlines why risk governance should be enhanced in future versions of safety frameworks, along with recommendations for AI companies and Governments

Feb 5, 2025

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Transforming risk governance at frontier AI companies


This report explores how aspects of best practice risk governance – particularly the Three Lines Model (3LoD), which separates risk ownership, oversight and

Jul 19, 2024

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Biosecurity

Risks arising from natural pandemics, laboratory leaks, bioweapons, and ‘dual-use’ research — advancements with the potential for both beneficial and harmful applications.

Biological Tools and the EU AI Act


In this report, we examine the definitions of general-purpose and systemic risk as classified in the EU AI Act and discuss how these

Jan 8, 2025

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CLTR’s Response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Safety Considerations for Chemical and/or Biological AI Models


The Centre for Long-Term Resilience recently contributed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Safety Considerations for Chemical and/or biological AI models.

Dec 27, 2024

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Risk Management

Global-reaching, high-impact threats possess the potential to cause widespread devastation to both lives and economies on a global scale.

The Government’s response to the Covid Inquiry and the National Risk Register 2025: Our thoughts


On January 16, 2025 the Government published its response to Module 1 of the Covid-19 Inquiry, outlining its stance on the Inquiry’s 10

Feb 13, 2025

Transforming risk governance at frontier AI companies


This report explores how aspects of best practice risk governance – particularly the Three Lines Model (3LoD), which separates risk ownership, oversight and

Jul 19, 2024

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