Frank Adamek

Frank Adamek is cofounder of the Existential Risk Reduction Career Network and is an Electrical Engineering Student at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
 
The Existential Risk Reduction Career Network is a career network for those interested in reducing existential risks, an existential risk being one of several events and trends that would destroy or permanently handicap all of humanity. A number of such dangerous possibilities have been with us throughout our history, primarily those of exceptionally powerful natural disasters. Obviously, no such disaster has yet occurred, though a monumental volcanic eruption approximately 70,000 years ago may have come perilously close.
 
More pressing are the dangers brought about by our increasing technological prowess. While technological advancement brings widespread improvements in our quality of life, it also continually enhances our capabilities for destruction. If and when such capabilities become sufficiently powerful, it is imperative that they be handled responsibly. The great danger of existential risk is that one mistake is too many, and there are no second chances.
 
Frank has experience in researching and designing creative solutions to open-ended engineering problems in digital logic, artificial neural networks, and biochemistry.