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Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing global catastrophic risks from advanced technologies.
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science · Swedish-American academic physicist (born 1967) · physicist · astronomer · astrophysicist · cosmologist · writer · university teacher · also Max Tegmark, Tegmark, Max Shapiro, Max Erik Tegmark
Born 5 May 1967 · Q2076321
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2026· 5 entries
UA.NEWS: Max Tegmark said there is insufficient regulation of AI in the U.S.
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Medium: Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0
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Tegmark was featured in TIME magazine's cover story entitled "The People Vs
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Tegmark was featured in Bloomberg in "Prince Harry, Geoffrey Hinton Call for Ban on AI Superintelligence", which covered a landmark petition signed by prominent public figures calling for a halt to superintelligence dev
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2025· 5 entries
Tegmark was featured in a Forbes article titled "Calculating The Risk Of ASI Starts With Human Minds", which discussed frameworks for assessing the risks of artificial superintelligence
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Tegmark was featured in the Financial Times in an article entitled "Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI", which examined efforts by technology companies to limit state-level AI regulation
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Tegmark participated in a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari on Bloomberg Live, which was titled "Harari and Tegmark on Humanity and AI"
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Tegmark appeared on MSNBC in a segment alongside actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt discussing the threat of AI superintelligence
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Tegmark was interviewed by CNN in a segment called "This expert predicts superintelligence could make 'everybody economically obsolete'", where he discussed the economic implications of advanced AI systems
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2024· 2 entries
Co-authored a paper introducing Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), which differ fundamentally from the neural networks typically used in machine learning and are designed to be more interpretable
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Tegmark was featured in Business Insider in an article called "Trump sees China as the biggest AI threat
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2023· 3 entries
Wall Street Journal: AI Expert Max Tegmark Warns That Humanity Is Failing the New Technology’s Challenge
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Time named Tegmark one of the 100 most influential people in AI
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Tegmark was the focus of a controversy when he was alleged to have signed a letter of intent on behalf of the Future of Life Institute for a $100,000 grant—ultimately rejected—to far-right media outlet Nya Dagbladet, an
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2021· 1 entry
As well as a $10 million donation from Elon Musk in 2015 and additional funding by board member and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn
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2020· 1 entry
Focused on the application of machine learning to the classification of news reports
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2019· 1 entry
For, according to the citation, "his contributions to our understanding of humanity's place in the cosmos and the opportunities and risks associated with artificial intelligence
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2018· 2 entries
VentureBeat: Physicist Max Tegmark on the promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
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Tegmark took part in a conversation with podcaster Lex Fridman about Artificial General Intelligence as part of a MIT course on AGI
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2017· 2 entries
Tegmark gave a talk entitled "Effective altruism, existential risk & existential hope" at the world's largest annual conference of the effective altruism movement
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Tegmark participated in an episode of Sam Harris' the Waking Up podcast entitled "The Future of Intelligence" where they discussed topics such as artificial intelligence and definitions of life
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded The KTH Great Prize (2015).
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Tegmark participated in an episode of Sam Harris' the Waking Up podcast entitled "The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You
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2014· 4 entries
VICE: The Mathematical Reality of Reality: An Interview with Cosmologist Max Tegmark
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Featured in The Principle, a documentary examining the Copernican Principle
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"The Perpetual Earth Program," a play based on Tegmark's book Our Mathematical Universe, was mounted in New York City as part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festival
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Tegmark co-authored an op-ed in The Huffington Post with Stephen Hawking, Frank Wilczek and Stuart Russell on the movie Transcendence
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2012· 2 entries
Tegmark married Meia Chita, with whom he has one son
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For, according to the citation, "his contributions to cosmology, including precision measurements from cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering data, tests of inflation and gravitation theories, and the developm
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2011· 1 entry
PBS: MAX TEGMARK ON TIME
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2007· 2 entries
The mathematical universe hypothesis, which postulates that the physical universe is a mathematical structure
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“So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.”
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2006· 1 entry
Tegmark was one of fifty scientists interviewed by New Scientist about their predictions for the future
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2004· 1 entry
Joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's department of physics
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2003· 1 entry
The discovery of the anomalous multipole alignment in the WMAP data, sometimes referred to as the "axis of evil"
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2001).
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1998· 1 entry
In The Astrophysical Journal the idea of using baryon acoustic oscillations as a standard ruler
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1997· 1 entry
Tegmark married astrophysicist Angelica de Oliveira-Costa in 1997, and divorced in 2009.
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1989· 1 entry
At the Stockholm School of Economics, and an M
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-05-05.
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