Max Tegmark

Co-founded Future of Life Institute; developed 23 Asilomar AI Principles; organized 2023 AI pause letter with 30,000+ signatories; author of Life 3.0 (NYT bestseller); TIME 100 Most Influential in AI 2023

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Current Role

Professor of Physics, MIT; President, Future of Life Institute

Organization

Future of Life Institute

Born

1967

Age ~59

Expert Positions2 topics

Topic	View	Estimate	Confidence	Date	Source
AGI Timelines	Very short	Within 3 years (stated Dec 2023)	medium	Dec 2023	December 2023 discussion on prediction markets
P(AI Catastrophe)	Significant	High enough to warrant urgent action	medium	Nov 2024	WebSummit 2024 remarks

Policy Positions1 policy

Policy	Position	Status	Reason
Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act	support	vetoed	MIT professor and FLI co-founder; argued it would be 'incongruous to say that there is a 10-25% chance that advanced AI will cause an extinction-level catastrophe, but then argue that the culpable AI companies should only receive fines after a catastrophe occurs'

Education

B.A. Economics, Stockholm School of Economics; B.Sc. Physics, Royal Institute of Technology; M.A. Physics, UC Berkeley (1992); Ph.D. Physics, UC Berkeley (1994)

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Quick Assessment

Dimension	Assessment
Primary Role	MIT Physics Professor, AI Safety Advocate, FLI President
Key Contributions	Co-founded Future of Life Institute; developed 23 Asilomar AI Principles adopted by 1,000+ researchers; organized 2023 AI pause letter with 30,000+ signatories
Main Focus Areas	AI safety and governance, mechanistic interpretability, cosmology, Mathematical Universe Hypothesis
Notable Works	Life 3.0 (2017), Our Mathematical Universe (2014), 300+ technical publications
Recognition	Time 100 Most Influential in AI (2023), American Physical Society Fellow (2012)
Key Concern	AGI misalignment and the "control problem" - preventing advanced AI from pursuing goals incompatible with human values

Key Links

Source	Link
Official Website	physics.mit.edu
Wikipedia	en.wikipedia.org

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People

Role / TitleProfessor of Physics, MIT; President, Future of Life Institute

Employed ByFuture of Life Institute

Biographical

Notable ForCo-founded Future of Life Institute; developed 23 Asilomar AI Principles; organized 2023 AI pause letter with 30,000+ signatories; author of Life 3.0 (NYT bestseller); TIME 100 Most Influential in AI 2023

Birth Year1967

EducationB.A. Economics, Stockholm School of Economics; B.Sc. Physics, Royal Institute of Technology; M.A. Physics, UC Berkeley (1992); Ph.D. Physics, UC Berkeley (1994)

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark

General

Websitehttp://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/

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