Two of the organisations are based at England’s oldest universities. The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) was founded in 2005 as part of Oxford University’s philosophy faculty, where its director Nick Bostrom is a professor. The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER, pronounced “Caesar”) is in Cambridge. It was co-founded by Lord Martin Rees, the UK’s Astronomer Royal, philosophy professor Huw Price, and technology entrepreneur Jaan Tallinn, and its Executive Director, Sean O’hEigeartaigh, was appointed in November 2012. Dr Stuart Russell is an adviser to CESR, along with Stephen
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