person
Huw Price
Cambridge philosopher; CSER co-founder
Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge and co-founder of CSER. Works on philosophical foundations of existential risk analysis.
Profile
expertise
External-domain expert
Recognised expert outside AI (philosophy, economics, biology, journalism) who weighs in on AI consequences from that vantage.
Cambridge philosopher of science. Co-founded Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with Rees and Tallinn.
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 academic-philosophy and x-risk 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.
Co-founded Cambridge CSER ~2012 with Rees and Tallinn. Pre-deep-learning x-risk frame.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Existential primacyendorses
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitHelped formalise the philosophical case for existential risk research, including AI.
“It seems a reasonable prediction that some time in this or the next century intelligence will escape from the constraints of biology.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.