The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) at UC Berkeley's School of Information conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of people, digital technologies, and emerging security risks. Its mission is to amplify the upside of the digital revolution, help decision-makers act with foresight, and expand who participates in cybersecurity. CLTC operates major programs including the AI Security Initiative (which produces frameworks for AI risk management and intolerable risk thresholds for frontier AI), the AI Policy Hub (training Berkeley researchers in AI governance), and the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (providing pro bono digital security to civil society). The center was founded in 2015 with a $15 million grant from the Hewlett Foundation and has grown into a multidisciplinary hub influencing national and international AI and cybersecurity policy.
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CLTC believes that long-term and catastrophic cybersecurity and AI risks can be reduced through rigorous interdisciplinary research, practical governance frameworks, and direct engagement with policymakers. On AI safety, the center's AI Security Initiative works to operationalize meaningful safety constraints on frontier AI by developing scientific frameworks for defining and measuring intolerable risk thresholds (including CBRN-enabling capabilities, evaluation deception, and large-scale influence operations), producing standards-aligned risk management profiles that AI developers and regulators can adopt, and training the next generation of AI policy researchers. By influencing national standards bodies (NIST), contributing to international governance processes (EU AI Act, AI Action Summit), and seeding a diaspora of trained researchers and practitioners across industry and government, CLTC aims to ensure that AI development is subject to meaningful accountability and safety constraints before catastrophic risks materialize.
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