Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from California Institute of Technology, master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA. His most recent book is The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, which he co-authored with Kevin Simler in January 2018. He also wrote The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth, which was published in June 2016. Professor Hanson also runs a blog called Overcoming Bias, which has had eight million visits. Professor Hanson was the first to write in detail about creating and subsidizing markets to gain better estimates on a wide variety of important topics, and he has pioneered prediction markets, also known as idea futures, since 1988. He has written widely on the application of idea futures to business and policy and is well-known for having suggested “futarchy,” a form of governance based on prediction markets.