| Key | Value |
| "Keep the Future Human" | His 2025 work explicitly argues for human dignity and agency against machine replacement |
| Action needed | Manual search of Carter's inbox for correspondence with this contact. |
| Alignment score | 20/100 — No faith signals identified. His work on existential risk and AI safety intersects with theological concerns about stewardship of creation and humanity's future, but these connections are not |
| Attio | https://app.attio.com/day-7-public-benefit-corporation/person/581738f2-ec25-4932-8f74-077194ad861b |
| Best approach | Institutional (FLI) or via AI governance community connections. NOT a faith-network approach. |
| Born | July 23, 1973 (age 52) |
| CRITICAL NOTE ON FAITH | No public evidence of Christian faith or religious affiliation has been found for Anthony Aguirre. His placement on the roster at Kings tier (#12) appears to be based on his AI governance work and ali |
| Career arc | Academic physicist (cosmology, quantum gravity) → Co-founded FLI (2014) with Max Tegmark, Jaan Tallinn, Meia Chita-Tegmark, Viktoriya Krakovna → Co-founded Metaculus → Foundational Questions Institute |
| Company/Organization | Future of Life Institute (FLI) / UC Santa Cruz |
| Completeness | 68% — SEEN strong; CELEBRATE well-sourced; professional network clear; personal depth limited |
| Composite Score | 91.0/100 |
| Confidence | HIGH (academic records and organizational filings are all public; easily verifiable) |
| Coverage | 0% |
| Created | S1295 Research Archaeology (profile did not previously exist) |
| Data Status | RICH (14,134 bytes across sources) |
| Direct? | No |
| Domain | Business & Enterprise |
| Domain (12-domain map) | Technology & AI (safety/governance) + Science & Education (physics) |
| Dossier | planning/wave3-dossiers/anthony-aguirre.md |
| Education | PhD Physics, Harvard University (2000); undergraduate unclear (likely Ivy/top program) |
| Fact count | 16 sourced facts |
| Faith position | No identified religious faith. Aguirre's framework is scientific-rationalist, probabilistic, and concerned with existential risk from a secular perspective. |
| Faith register | SECULAR-ACADEMIC — no public faith statements; operates from scientific/philosophical framework about human potential and existential risk. Likely agnostic/atheist given physics background, but concer |
| Family | UNVERIFIED |
| Full Name | Anthony Aguirre |
| Full name | Anthony Aguirre |
| HONEST ASSESSMENT | Similar to Buterin, the roster lists alignment 91 and "kingdom-aligned." This appears incorrect. There is zero public evidence of Christian faith engagement. Recommend re-scoring alignment to 20. |
| Harvest | planning/harvest/genesis-outreach-anthony-aguirre.md |
| Hub | planning/command-center/12-anthony-aguirre.md |
| Key accomplishment | FLI's "Pause Giant AI Experiments" open letter (March 2023) — 30,000+ signatories including major AI researchers and tech leaders. This made FLI one of the most visible organizations in AI governance. |
| Key insight | His "Tool AI" framework is exactly Genesis's thesis. Position as "you wrote the spec, we built it." |
| Location | Santa Cruz, California |
| Mined by | C3 window, S1334 LAST RUN |
| Net Worth | Not publicly disclosed — academic/nonprofit |
| One-line | FLI Executive Director who authored "Keep the Future Human" and co-organized the AI pause letter — alignment est. 75/100 |
| Primary Role | Executive Director, Future of Life Institute (FLI); Professor of Physics, UC Santa Cruz; Co-founder, Metaculus |
| Profile | war-room/profiles/anthony-aguirre.md |
| Rank | 234 (Standard Tier) \ | Session: 1327 \ | Date: 2026-06-13 |
| Register note up front (read this first) | Aguirre is not a person of identified religious faith — he is a scientific-rationalist, a contemplative one. The truth law forbids us to invent a faith he doesn't hold. So his page runs in the h |
| Role | Faggin Presidential Professor for the Physics of Information, UC Santa Cruz; Executive Director & Co-Founder, Future of Life Institute (FLI) |
| Search terms used | Anthony Aguirre |
| Slug | anthony-aguirre |
| Source | git-deleted planning/top300/dossiers/anthony-aguirre.md (commit caea9ab79bdb) |
| Source Links | Dossier · Top300 · Profile |
| Sources | - Existing profile (war-room/profiles/anthony-aguirre.md) |
| Stated dream | Ensure that advanced AI and other transformative technologies benefit rather than destroy humanity; build the infrastructure (forecasting, governance, research) to make good decisions about existentia |
| Story 1 — The Physicist | Aguirre is a serious theoretical cosmologist — inflation, black holes, quantum foundations, statistical mechanics. He engages the universe at its most fundamental level. This is not applied science or |
| Story 2 — The Guardian | Simultaneously, Aguirre has become one of the most important voices in protecting humanity from its own technological creations. He didn't just write papers — he built FLI, attracted Elon Musk's fundi |
| Suggested search terms | Anthony Aguirre, company/org names from network section. |
| The note he must never hear | any gospel-explicit pitch, any claim he shares a faith he doesn't, any "alignment score / warm path / he's an influence node" framing from the dossier. Also no doom-merchant flattery ("you'll save us |
| The recognition lens | Aguirre is a person who has dedicated his career to ensuring that the most powerful technologies serve humanity rather than replace it. Whether or not he holds personal faith, his work aligns with the |
| The whole person | Aguirre studies the cosmos AND protects humanity's future within it. He asks "how does the universe work?" AND "how do we keep humans at the center of it?" The physicist and the guardian are the same |
| Tier | Influence + Validation (not capital) |
| Timestamp | 2026-06-16T16:45Z |
| Top-300 Dossier | planning/top300/dossiers/anthony-aguirre.md |
| UNVERIFIED | Whether Aguirre has any private spiritual practice or faith orientation. His public posture is that of a secular academic concerned with human flourishing. |
| Warm path to Genesis | WEAK-TO-MODERATE — Aguirre's work on existential risk and human flourishing has structural parallels to kingdom-preservation thinking. Entry through AI safety community (shared concern), forecasting n |
| Warmth | KNOWN |
| Why | Research profile with background, wealth, faith alignment, and engagement data. |