# Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR)

> CLR is a UK charity researching how to reduce risks of astronomical suffering
> (s-risks) from advanced AI. Our current work focuses on harmful propensities in
> AI systems, and on cooperation failures between them.

## Research agendas

- [Model Persona Research Agenda](https://longtermrisk.org/research/model-persona-research-agenda/): This agenda studies and steers the emergence of malicious propensities in LLMs — traits like spitefulness, sadism, and punitiveness. We treat personas, bundles of correlated traits, as a useful abstraction for how propensities generalise out-of-distribution, and as a target for interventions.
- [Safe Pareto Improvements Research Agenda](https://longtermrisk.org/research/safe-pareto-improvements-research-agenda/): Safe Pareto improvements (SPIs) are modifications to agents’ bargaining strategies that make all parties better off, regardless of their original strategies — an unusually robust approach to preventing catastrophic conflict between AI systems. This agenda addresses the risk that early AI development forecloses the option to adopt them.

## Key pages

- [/about/](https://longtermrisk.org/about/): Mission, values, how CLR is organised and funded
- [/research/](https://longtermrisk.org/research/): All research outputs, and our 2 current research agendas
- [/opportunities/](https://longtermrisk.org/opportunities/): Open roles, research programs, courses and funding
- [/team/](https://longtermrisk.org/team/): Researchers, staff and advisors
- [/updates/](https://longtermrisk.org/updates/): Organisational updates
- [/grantmaking/](https://longtermrisk.org/grantmaking/): The CLR Fund: what it funds and how to apply
- [/transparency/](https://longtermrisk.org/transparency/): Budgets, plans and annual reviews since 2013
- [/donate/](https://longtermrisk.org/donate/): How to support the work

## Research outputs

139 outputs are listed at https://longtermrisk.org/research/. Work published
elsewhere links out from a stub page; work we host is a full article.

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