person
Anthony Aguirre
UC Santa Cruz physicist; FLI co-founder
Physics professor and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, the Foundational Questions Institute, and the Metaculus prediction platform. Leads FLI's policy work.
Profile
expertise
External-domain expert
Recognised expert outside AI (philosophy, economics, biology, journalism) who weighs in on AI consequences from that vantage.
UC Santa Cruz physicist. Co-founded Future of Life Institute and Metaculus. Engages AI through forecasting and x-risk lens.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
Recognised in EA, forecasting, and AI-policy circles.
vintage
Pre-deep-learning
Active before AlexNet. The existential-risk frame matures (FHI, OpenPhil, EA). Public AI commentary still rare; deep learning not yet dominant.
FLI co-founded 2014. Metaculus 2015. His x-risk forecasting frame predates deep-learning era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Pauseendorses
Halt frontier training until alignment catches upSteers FLI's policy work; co-authored the Pause letter and has called for a conditional moratorium tied to capability thresholds.
We don't want to stop all AI, we want to stop the reckless training of giant, dangerous, unaligned systems.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.