person
Hannah Fry
Cambridge mathematician; 'Hello World' author
Mathematician and broadcaster; Cambridge professor (from 2024) and author of 'Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine' (2018). Frequent BBC presenter on algorithms and decision-making.
current Professor of Public Understanding of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
past Professor, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
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Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues algorithmic decision-making in finance, criminal justice, and healthcare is the high-stakes ground for AI ethics; pushes back on framings that treat the question as primarily about future AGI.
Algorithms are already making decisions that change lives. The question of how much trust to give them is one we have to answer now, not in some future when AI is much more capable.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.