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.
Biosecurity
Risks arising from natural pandemics, laboratory leaks, bioweapons, and ‘dual-use’ research — advancements with the potential for both beneficial and harmful applications.
Progress on Biosecurity in the European Biotech Act
CLTR responds to the amendments tabled by the joint SANT and ITRE committees and to the ENVI and JURI opinions. We set out
Risk Management
Global-reaching, high-impact threats possess the potential to cause widespread devastation to both lives and economies on a global scale.
Ten things we want to see from Exercise Pegasus
What does best-in-class risk preparedness exercising look like? We outline ten key benchmarks we’ll be watching for from Exercise Pegasus to demonstrate the