The Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) is a research institute that aims to mitigate s-risks from advanced AI. Its research agenda focuses on encouraging cooperative behavior in and avoiding conflict between transformative AI systems.^[1]

History

CLR was founded in July 2013 as the Foundational Research Institute;^[2] it adopted its current name in March 2020.^[3] CLR is part of the Effective Altruism Foundation.

Funding

As of June 2022, CLR has received over $1.2 million in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.^[4]

Further reading

Rice, Issa (2018) Timeline of Foundational Research Institute, Timelines Wiki.

Torges, Stefan (2022) CLR’s annual report 2021, Effective Altruism Forum, February 26.

External links

Center on Long-Term Risk. Official website.

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Related entries

AI risk | Effective Altruism Foundation | s-risk

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Clifton, Jesse (2020) Cooperation, Conflict, and Transformative Artificial Intelligence: A Research Agenda, Center on Long-Term Risk.
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Center on Long-Term Risk (2020) Transparency, Center on Long-Term Risk, November.
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Vollmer, Jonas (2020) EAF/FRI are now the Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR), Effective Altruism Foundation, March 6.
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Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.