person
Martin Hellman
Stanford cryptographer; Turing Award winner
Turing Award-winning cryptographer (Diffie-Hellman key exchange). Long-time activist on nuclear risk; signed the 2023 Statement on AI Risk.
current Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Strategy positions
Existential primacyendorses
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitSignatory to the Statement on AI Risk.
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.