Profiles of speakers

for the keynote lecture at the Fifth International Symposium on Human Survivability (21-22 November 2016, Kyoto University, Japan) Whether by error, by terror, or by war, humanity has reached the technological capability to cause its own extinction. In the 21st century, anthropogenic risks, inter alia stemming from technological advances in fields such as bioengineering, artificial intelligence and weapons systems, have come to exceed geoor astrophysical risks. The University of Cambridge established the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) to study such low-probability, high-impact threat scenarios and produce research that would help prevent or mitigate them, so that humanity can reap the benefits of technological progress, while safely navigating the potentially catastrophic