Max Tegmark
Physicist, AI researcher and author
Max Tegmark is a physics professor at MIT who moved from cosmology into AI research. He wrote Life 3.0, which explores possible futures with advanced AI.
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Born 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden
About Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark was born on 5 May 1967 and is a Swedish-American physicist, researcher in machine learning and author. He is a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He began as a cosmologist, and his focus later moved to artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit that works on lowering large-scale risks from powerful new technologies, and he leads it today. He has also written more than 200 technical papers, on subjects from cosmology to AI. His 2017 book Life 3.0 sets out scenarios for how the world could look as AI develops. He has argued for a halt to the development of artificial superintelligence.