Robin Hanson

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Birth Year

1959

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Birth Year1959—2 pts▶

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—	1959	view →
—	1959	view →

EducationUniversity of California, Irvine; University of Chicago; California Institute of Technology—2 pts▶

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—	University of California, Irvine; University of Chicago; California Institute of Technology	view →
—	B.S. Physics, UC Irvine (1981); M.S. Physics and M.A. Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago (1984); Ph.D. Social Science, Caltech (1997)	view →

Notable ForPioneered prediction markets (since 1988); invented Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule (LMSR); proposed futarchy governance; originated Great Filter hypothesis; authored The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain; 5,200+ citationsMar 2026view →

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson—2 pts▶

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Career History

Organization	Title	Start	Source	Notes	Source check
George Mason University	Associate Professor of Economics	1999	en.wikipedia.org	Research on prediction markets, AI futures, and social science; associated faculty at GMU	Not checked

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