Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

mission beri is an independent 501(c)(3) public charity. our mission is to improve human civilization’s long-term prospects for survival and flourishing. currently, our main strategy is to take on ethical and legal responsibility, as a grant-maker and collaborator, for projects deemed to be important for reducing existential risk. these projects mostly revolve around reducing risk from technologies that may pose significant civilization-scale dangers, as determined by research collaborators who have adopted existential risk reduction as both their primary career ambition and their primary area of intellectual focus. what we do human civilization currently lacks a sufficiently coordinated and influential effort to ensure the continued existence of our species. beri wants to help solve that problem, fast. we've identified a few organizations that are staffed with full-time researchers working to reduce existential risk, who we’re committed to helping in their missions, including: cha