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Profile page for Max Tegmark, MIT physicist and AI safety researcher who co-founded the Future of Life Institute, relevant as a key figure in AI safety advocacy, mechanistic interpretability, and guaranteed safe AI research.

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This is the official profile page for Max Tegmark at the Future of Life Institute. It outlines his roles as MIT professor, FLI founder, and author of 'Life 3.0', and highlights his current AI safety research focus on mechanistic interpretability and guaranteed safe AI.

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  • •Max Tegmark is a professor at MIT working on AI and physics research, affiliated with the Institute for AI & Fundamental Interactions and Center for Brains, Minds and Machines.
  • •He is the founder and chair of the Future of Life Institute, a leading AI safety and existential risk organization.
  • •His current AI safety research focuses on mechanistic interpretability and guaranteed safe AI.
  • •He authored the NYT bestseller 'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence', a widely read AI safety book.
  • •Named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023.

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Max TegmarkNotable 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 2023Mar 2026

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Max Tegmark 

 Position Founder and Chair Organisation Future of Life Institute Member of Board Members Biography Max Tegmark is a professor doing AI and physics research at MIT as part of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence & Fundamental Interactions and the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines. He is the author of over 300 publications as well as the New York Times bestsellers “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” and “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”. His most recent AI safety research focuses on mechanistic interpretability and guaranteed safe AI, and he also researches news bias detection with machine-learning. Max is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and holds a gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science. Time Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023. He is a serial founder of non-profits, including the Future of Life Institute, the Foundational Questions Institute and Improve the News Foundation.

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