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In this role, you will be responsible for researching, writing, and submitting grant proposals to secure funding for our various research initiatives, and policy development programs and creating impact reports and other external communication pieces. 

On July 18th, The Right Honourable Baroness Hallett published Module 1 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, focusing on the Resilience and Preparedness of the United Kingdom.

Due to strong interest, we are not currently accepting new applications for this opportunity. We may re-open this application process if there is a need for additional candidates.

If you are passionate about CLTR’s mission and think you have what it takes to be successful as a Board member, even if you don’t feel you check all the boxes, please apply. We’d really appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

We provided comments and feedback to the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI Interim Report ahead of the AI Seoul Summit.

In addition to written evidence and ongoing engagement, we provided oral evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee’s Engineering Biology inquiry.

As part of our work to identify the three most beneficial next steps that the UK Government can take to reduce the biological risk posed by BTs, our team reflected on where the approach to narrow, specialised tools will need to differ from existing approaches to mitigating the risks from frontier AI. 

Overhauling central government and following the lead of big business will help us face complex risks.

Read our letter in The Financial Times

This week marks an important milestone in the UK Government’s journey to regulating AI, with the first official update on the UK’s approach to AI regulation since the White Paper published last March.

This role will be vitally important as it will dramatically increase the productivity and impact of the whole team.

We are seeking a dedicated individual to become a core member of our Biosecurity Policy Unit. In this versatile role, you will contribute to developing, evaluating, and advocating for impactful biosecurity policies aimed at reducing extreme biological risks.

The Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR) is recruiting a freelance Communications Contractor.

On 4 December, the UK Government released its 2023 Implementation Update to the UK Government Resilience Framework, published in December last year. In our original response to the Framework, we commended it as a welcome first step, while also identifying six areas for further improvement. 

On the 1st and 2nd November, the UK government held the widely-anticipated AI Safety Summit. In this post, we share some reflections on the week and what we hope to see next.

We are excited to be recruiting a Director of Strategic Partnerships as a core part of our senior team.

The UK government has committed to holding an international summit on AI safety at Bletchley Park this November.

The Government has published the National Risk Register 2023 (NRR ‘23), which follows previous versions in 2017 and 2020 and is the eighth edition since the first publication in 2008.

The past 6 months have seen rapid advances in the capabilities of general-purpose AI systems, often called “foundation models”.

We are pleased to see many important commitments to strengthening the UK’s capabilities for preventing, detecting and responding to biological threats in the Biological Security Strategy (BSS), published on 12 June 2023.

The Centre for Long-Term Resilience welcomes the publication of the refreshed Biological Security Strategy (BSS) from the UK Government.