Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson

Robin Hansen is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a researcher at the Institute for the Future of Humanity at Oxford University. He holds a PhD in Sociology from California Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in

2019-03-30  

Robin Hansen is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a researcher at the Institute for the Future of Humanity at Oxford University. He holds a PhD in Sociology from California Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has worked as a research programmer at Lockheed Martin and NASA for nine years. Hansen's paper has been cited more than 2800 times, with a citation index of 25. He has published articles in over 60 academic journals, including Algorithmica, Applied Optics, ACM Communications, Economic Letters, Economics, Econometrics, Governance Economics, Fundamentals of Physics, Intelligent Systems Journal of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Association, Frontiers of Information Systems, Innovation, International Artificial Intelligence Congress, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Evolution and Technology, Journal of Legal Economics and Policy, Journal of Political Philosophy Journal of Predictive Markets, Journal of Public Economics, Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Medical Hypothesis, Journal of the Royal Society, Public Choice, Science, Social Epistemology, Social Philosophy and Policy, Theory and Decision. He published his first book, Work, Love, and Life in the Era of Robots when Robots ruled Earth in 2015, and later co created the elephant in the room with Kevin Simler. Professor Hansen has been reported by the media more than 400 times and has been invited to attend over 200 speeches. His blog OvercomingBiascom has received over 8 million views. Since 1988, Hansen has pioneered the prediction market, also known as the information market or concept futures. He elaborated in detail for the first time that people create subsidy markets in order to obtain better evaluations. He was the chief architect of Xanadu's first batch of internal markets in 1990, the first batch of online markets on the Fushai Exchange, Foresight Exchange since 1994, and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's DAPRA Policy Analysis Market from 2001 to 2003. He developed new technologies for conditional trading, portfolio trading, and intermediary trading, and studied violations such as insider trading and manipulation. He has published over 100 articles and speeches on the application of concept futures in business and policy, and provided advice for many venture capital projects. Hansen's research interests are diverse, and his published papers include topics such as space product competition, health incentive contracts, group insurance, product bans, evolutionary psychology and healthcare ethics, voter information incentive policies, Bayesian classification, approval and opposition, self deception in disagreements, probability heuristic, eavesdropping, image reconstruction, history of science awards, reversible computing, origin of life, human survival, long-term economic growth The growth and interstellar colonization brought about by machine intelligence.