Anthony Aguirre is a Faggin Professor of Physics of Information at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He currently serves as Vice-President for Policy and Research at the Future of Life Institute, an international NGO focusing on the implications of transformational technology. Aguirre’s academic research has spanned a very wide variety of topics from foundational physics to AI policy. He is also the co-founder and President of Metaculus, an online science and technology forecasting platform, and is the co-founder and Director of the Foundational Questions Institute, a U.S. nonprofit supporting fundamental physics research.