AI Safety Compendium

Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR)

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Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR)

The Centre for Long-Term Resilience is an independent UK think tank with a mission to transform global resilience to extreme risks, with primary focus on AI risks, biosecurity, and government risk management. CLTR is the most established UK-based policy organization explicitly focused on AI catastrophic risk.

Overview

  • Founded: ~2020 (“set up five years ago” as of 2025 sources)
  • Status: Independent, non-partisan
  • Geographic focus: UK with international engagement
  • Funding: Founders Pledge among others

AI Policy Work

Per CLTR’s AI Policy & Research page, the organization:

  • Works directly with the UK Government and the wider AI policy community
  • Develops and implements best-practice governance recommendations to protect against catastrophic AI risks
  • Has contributed to:
    • The Ministry of Defence’s AI Strategy report recognizing AI as an extreme risk
    • The refreshed UK Biosecurity Strategy
    • Extensions to the National Security Risk Assessment time horizon
    • The 2024 report How the UK Government can govern the risk of loss of control

Risk Areas

CLTR addresses risks from AI in two distinct registers:

  1. Misuse — AI-enabled bioweapons, disinformation, cyber attacks
  2. Loss of control / unintended behaviors — particularly in national security and critical infrastructure
  3. Power concentration — socioeconomic AI consolidation

Significance

CLTR is the UK’s policy-side counterpart to the UK AI Safety Institute’s technical-evaluation role. While AISI does evaluations, CLTR drives the legislative and governance work. Together with the Future of Life Institute (Brussels) and CeSIA (Paris), it forms the policy-think-tank tier of European AI safety institutional capacity.

Connection to This Wiki

  • The UK node in the European AI catastrophic-risk policy network.
  • Anchor for governance work upstream of the UK AI Safety Summit 2023 and the post-Bletchley AISI ecosystem.

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