person
Peter Norvig
Stanford HAI Education Fellow; co-author of the standard AI textbook
Co-author with Stuart Russell of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Former Director of Research at Google. Signatory to the Statement on AI Risk.
Profile
expertise
Deep technical
Sustained peer-reviewed contribution to ML, alignment, interpretability, or safety techniques. Could review a frontier paper.
Stanford HAI fellow; former Google research director. Co-author of 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach' with Stuart Russell.
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.
Standard AI textbook gives him near-universal recognition in CS. Less mainstream press.
vintage
Symbolic era
Career started in the GOFAI / expert-systems / early-rationalist period. Vinge's 1993 Singularity, MIRI founded 2000, Bostrom and Yudkowsky writing.
Russell & Norvig textbook 1995. Google research director 2001-2014. Career bridges symbolic AI to early deep learning.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
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.”
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.