person
Sean Carroll
Johns Hopkins / Santa Fe; physicist and Mindscape host
Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins and the Santa Fe Institute; hosts Mindscape, where AI risk has been a recurring topic. Cautious about AGI timelines and tends toward measured skepticism on near-term existential framings.
current Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Strategy positions
AI skepticmixed
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues current LLMs are not on a smooth path to general intelligence; engages seriously with x-risk arguments but views many specific scenarios as physically and economically implausible.
I'm willing to take seriously that AI is a really big deal. I'm not willing to grant that the specific paths to doom you imagine have anything like the probability you assign to them.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.