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Useful as a reference for understanding a key figure in the AI safety movement; Tegmark's institutional roles and public advocacy make him relevant to governance, existential risk, and coordination topics in the AI safety landscape.

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Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American MIT physicist who co-founded the Future of Life Institute and has become a prominent voice in AI safety and existential risk. He authored 'Life 3.0' (2017), exploring AI's potential futures, and actively advocates for halting artificial superintelligence development. His background bridges cosmology and machine learning, giving him a distinctive scientific perspective on long-term AI risks.

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•Co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing global catastrophic risks from advanced technologies including AI.
•Authored 'Life 3.0' (2017), a widely read book presenting scenarios for how advanced AI could reshape civilization.
•Advocates for a moratorium or halt on the development of artificial superintelligence due to existential risk concerns.
•MIT professor who transitioned from cosmology to AI safety research, bringing a rigorous physics background to existential risk analysis.
•Instrumental in organizing AI safety letters and initiatives, helping galvanize mainstream scientific attention toward long-term AI risks.

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Entity	Property	Value	As Of
Max Tegmark	Birth Year	1967	—
Max Tegmark	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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# Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark

Swedish-American academic physicist (born 1967)

| Max Tegmark |
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| [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Max_Tegmark_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg/500px-Max_Tegmark_2024_%28cropped%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Max_Tegmark_2024_(cropped).jpg)<br>Tegmark in 2024 |
| Born | Max Erik Shapiro<br> (1967-05-05) 5 May 1967 (age58)<br>[Stockholm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm "Stockholm"), [Sweden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden "Sweden")\[ _[not verified in body](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed "Wikipedia:Citation needed")_\] |
| Almamater | [Stockholm School of Economics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_School_of_Economics "Stockholm School of Economics") ( [BA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts "Bachelor of Arts"))<br>[Royal Institute of Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Institute_of_Technology "Royal Institute of Technology") ( [MSE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Science_in_Engineering "Master of Science in Engineering"))<br>[University of California, Berkeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley "University of California, Berkeley") ( [MA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts "Master of Arts"), [PhD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhD "PhD")) |
| **Scientific career** |
| Fields | [Cosmology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology "Cosmology"), [physics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics "Physics"), [machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning "Machine learning") |
| Institutions | [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology "Massachusetts Institute of Technology")<br>[Future of Life Institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Life_Institute "Future of Life Institute") |
| [Thesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis "Thesis") | _[Probes of the Early Universe](https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/thesis.pdf)_(1994) |
| [Doctoral advisor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctoral_advisor "Doctoral advisor") | [Joseph Silk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Silk "Joseph Silk") |
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**Max Tegmark** (born 5 May 1967[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark#cite_note-TegmarkOxford-1)) is a Swedish-American physicist, [machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning "Machine learning") researcher and author. He is a professor of physics at the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology "Massachusetts Institute of Technology"). He co-founded and leads the [Future of Life Institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Life_Institute "Future of Life Institute"), a nonprofi

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