Max Tegmark

Known as Mad Max for my unorthodox ideas and passion for adventure, my scientific interests range from artificial intelligence to the ultimate nature of reality

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Here's a beautifully filmed Black Mirror-style take on the race to uncontrollable superintelligence just launched by @ForegoneFilms:

[Future of Life Institute @FLI_org]

When Eva visits her dad’s AI company, she meets Liam 6, their flagship AI model.

With the imminent launch of a new model, and the company's co-founder claiming Liam 7 is too dangerous to release, Eva asks: can they actually control what they've created?

New from @ForegoneFilms:

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

I'm honored to get to join so many cool AI colleagues on this list! 🥳

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

The Boston Globe’s fifth annual Tech Power Players list spotlights the CEOs, founders, investors, and other influential leaders shaping the region’s tech scene and supercharging it for the artificial intelligence era. https://t.co/DSUX2hv7tM

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Don't complain about your tap water! /Big Brother

[Orwell (satire) @goodthink1984]

Orwell Update Episode 5

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

Last week, Argentina’s President Milei announced a new legal category for non-human corporations – companies run by #AI agents or robots. Like traditional corporations, they would be granted legal personhood. This could generate enormous new wealth, but very worryingly, it would also hand AIs an all-purpose key that grants access to our financial, economic and political systems. Full op-ed in today's @FT: https://t.co/w6DzOwByiq

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

If @gdb and @pmanrca_ are actually funding this false-flag operation, faking AI safety advocates caling for violence, then I interpret it as evidence that they're panicking over losing the public debate.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

TLDR: to discredit AI safety advocates, the OpenAI/a16z Super Pac made sockpuppet accounts - PRETENDING TO BE AI SAFETY ADVOCATES - that call for violence (!)

Yes, a false flag operation.

Journalists should be ALL over this.

AND - even more fucked up - after Sam Altman was attacked, the Super Pac president blamed AI safety advocates for THEIR rhetoric... while HE was using sockpuppet accounts using this rhetoric

Deeply evil, cartoon villain shit

[Michaël Trazzi @MichaelTrazzi]

This morning I witnessed the first US criminal trial on existential risk from AI.

Surprisingly, the judge did NOT initially dismiss Wynd Kaufmyn's necessity defense arguments for blocking the doors of OpenAI, to prevent an existential threat. The judge wants to hear more (1/) 🧵

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Of course you have moral principles – but do you use them enough? We wrote this 6-step checklist for toning up your moral muscles, specialized for well-meaning AI researchers.
https://t.co/GYyNHxMu4h

[Christopher Marc @_ChristopherM]

.@ronnychieng's Harvard graduation speech is one for the ages. #FuckAI #KillAI #DestroyAI

[SuperAI @superai_conf]

Max @Tegmark wants the AI industry to succeed. He also thinks the path the major labs are on won't get us there.

The MIT AI-researcher and @FLI_org founder has spent a decade making that case.

Catch his keynote "How to Build a Pro-Human Future with AI" at SuperAI on 10-11 June.

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Although Pope Leo XIV's encyclical doesn't explicitly mention the superintelligence that AI companies say they're racing toward, its opposition to it in favor of controllable AI tools is clear: 'Humanity — in all its grandeur and woundedness — must never be replaced or surpassed.'
https://t.co/Fnoa5ZTWDi

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

How can letting well-meaning AI researchers get tricked into causing harm? @MeiaTegmark & I had fun writing this piece on the psychology of moral disengagement: https://t.co/Q9e8qlFbZ2

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

@realDonaldTrump And he just hit #1 on Polymarket: https://t.co/zVd57xV3QY

[Mark Beall @MarkBeall]

After agreeing to discuss AI guardrails with China, Trump is now #1 on polymarket to win the nobel peace prize.

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

If @realDonaldTrump
& Xi can pull off a great deal that keeps humans in charge of machines for the long haul, it IMHO deserves a Nobel Peace Price. 🏆

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: On artificial intelligence, what did you get done with President Xi?

TRUMP: We talked about possibly working together for guardrails. We probably will work together. We discussed almost everything you could discuss except for a reduction of tariffs.

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

...and @realDonaldTrump's chances of winning the Nobel Peace Price just shot up about 5k:

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

The AI race-to-replace (girlfriends, jobs, decision-making, etc) isn't inevitable: There's a better path, and this new website is IMHO the most detailed description of it so far:

[Anthony Aguirre @AnthonyNAguirre]

We don't have to accept the way AI is going.

The biggest companies building AI aren't building it for us. They're building it to replace us.

We’ve made a roadmap for how we can build pro-human AI: https://t.co/70Zb7KauWg

Let me take you through it…

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

If @realDonaldTrump & Xi can pull off a deal that keeps humans in charge of machines for the long haul, it deserves a Nobel Peace Price. 🏆