Robin Dale Hanson

Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a former research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. He holds a PhD in social science from Caltech and is known for pioneering prediction markets, inventing logarithmic market scoring rules, and proposing the futarchy governance model. He is also known for originating the Great Filter hypothesis and for his books The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain, the latter co-authored with Kevin Simler.