Anthony Aguirre

Anthony Aguirre is a theoretical cosmologist and professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he holds the Faggin Presidential Chair for the Physics of Information. He serves as President and CEO of the Future of Life Institute, which he co-founded in 2014, and is also a co-founder of the prediction platform Metaculus and the Foundational Questions Institute. He is known for his research in cosmology, gravitation, and the foundations of quantum and statistical mechanics, as well as his work on AI safety and existential risk. He is the author of the 2019 book Cosmological Koans and the 2025 essay Keep the Future Human.