We’re happy to announce that
Robin Hanson – associate professor of economics at George Mason University, research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, and a chief scientist at Consensus Point – joined our team as an advisor.
His doctorate background in social science and Master’s in physics and philosophy laid the foundation for his vast expertise in economics, intelligent systems, AI, bioethics, probability elicitation and so on. Professor Hanson also holds nine years of experience as a research programmer at Lockheed and NASA. He has over 90 academic publications and 690 media mentions. Oxford University Press published his books «The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth» and «The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life». Professor Hanson has given 320 invited talks, and his blog OvercomingBias.com has had eight million visits.
Robin Hanson built his reputation as a leading expert at the intersection of prediction markets, health incentive contracts, group insurance, evolutionary psychology and bioethics of health care, Bayesian classification, reversible computation, the survival of humanity, very long term economic growth and growth given machine intelligence.
Professor Hanson is clearly an invaluable resource for the furthering of our project’s technology and concept. We are truly honored to have him as a part of our team.
To learn more about Robin Hanson, check out his Twitter
https://twitter.com/robinhanson, watch to his TED talks
https://www.ted.com/speakers/robin_hanson, and take a look at his LinkedIn profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-hanson-5156b/