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]

How good is AI at manipulating us when we're prepared? Should we build bots in such a way that they deserve legal rights? Should be try to build AI tools or beings? Meia did her Ph.D. in psychology and a postdoc on human-machine interactions, so these takes are from a psychology perspective:

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

I'm curious if AI hacking tools were used for this: https://t.co/UY1dHGMTom

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Although this is indeed a spectacular result, that measly log-factor doesn't make much difference in practice: for n=1000, it replaces 2^1000 by 2^380, which is still way more than the number of atoms in our universe, meaning that a universe-sized computer may be unable to solve such a problem even if if we gave it billions of years:

[lidang 立党 （劝人卖房/学CS/买SP500/纳100/OpenAI/Anthrop第一人） @lidangzzz]

操他妈的，OpenAI正式宣布，ETH被证伪了。

整个计算机领域的天塌了，我他妈整个人震惊了整整5分钟。

这他妈的，这种心情和情绪，不知道他妈怎么形容，就是觉得他妈的，一个巨大的震惊，我可操他妈的。

OpenAI这群闲人没白养，这个贡献妥妥他妈的值半个图灵奖（含金量约等于10个诺贝尔奖）了。

[Toby Ord @tobyordoxford]

How is this a real article in a serious newspaper?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

I don't usually agree with Republican officials. But yesterday, a group of eight state Attorneys General, including seven Republicans, sued OpenAI for endangering the American people through its reckless development of ChatGPT.

Here is just some of what they said:

The Arkansas Attorney General, Tim Griffin, argued that as safety concerns mounted, “OpenAI did not slow down. It held its foot on the gas, releasing increasingly powerful models without adequate safeguards or testing as growth and profits repeatedly took priority over safety.”

The Montana Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, argued that OpenAI’s “revenues have come at great cost to the public, which has suffered irreparable harm—including lost loved ones, disturbing cyberattacks, and now a plausible threat of civilizational collapse.”

The Iowa Attorney General, Brenna Bird, demanded a PAUSE on AI testing “until adequate safeguards are implemented to ensure that the tests do not pose a danger to the public.”

They're right.

If Big Tech Oligarchs are building a product that is threatening the safety of our children and all of humanity, they must be held accountable – no matter how rich and powerful they might be.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

Top mathematician: "The shock is immense. I am paralyzed."

"Not a single one of the major open problems of my career was left untouched by the announcement."

"I expected to see a few of them in the list. But not all of them. Not all at once. Not with such nonchalance."

"I expected that one day we would be surpassed. But yesterday's announcement hit with a force I had not anticipated."

@AndrewCurran_: "Please resist the urge to mock the mathematicians struggling through this moment. Whatever your field, your expertise, your passion, you too shall one day experience what they are going through. And when you remember your words, you will feel remorse."

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

David Sacks says Anthropic is run by a "religious cult" and is doing the very things it says it fears most, like opening a wet lab while warning of bio risk, and that there's an argument for sending in a federal SWAT team

"But I do think that there are potential externalities from having the number one frontier model company run by a religious cult."

"So, for example, they are opening a Claude-powered wet lab in the middle of San Francisco. But at the same time, they're warning of bio risk. At the same time, they say that we have to pace the frontier, they're extending the frontier. At the same time that they are saying that there's a risk of superintelligence growing beyond our control, they're programming it to grow beyond our control."

"I think there are potentially huge externalities to the way they approach these things. And it's, like, insane that they call these decisions "safety." These are not safe decisions. These are crazy decisions, it seems to me."

"This is why I've called this a schizophrenic company, is they appear to be not only hypocritical, but they're doing the things that they say they are most afraid of."

"Like, what is going on here? This is bizarre. And I don't know where this all leads. I do think there's an argument for a federal SWAT team to come blasting in there."

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

I'm excited to share our new film Delisted, about how we end up in 1984 without AI going rogue. It’s the 3rd dystopian AI scenario that we need to avoid to enjoy AI's great upside:
1) Rogue AI
2) Obedient AI misused
3) Obedient AI causes 1984
4) Race-to-replace by obedient AI
Synopsis: When AI-driven power concentration sparks protests, the government's response isn't force - it's erasure. Dissenters are Delisted: wiped from every financial, digital and legal system.
Starring Katie Parker, Jamie Bamber, Alex Bhat, Rosalind Halstead, Charlie Hiscock, and Ruby Bridle.
Written & directed by Michael Patrick Clarkson
Featuring "Bleed Us Anew," an original song written and performed by Ruby Bridle
A Space Digital production, in collaboration with FLI

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

@BecketBroYo Yup: https://t.co/NVIHDtcWfR

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

I'm excited to share our new film Moloch, about how we all get disempowered without AI going rogue. It’s the 4th (and IMHO least discussed) dystopian AI scenario:
1) Rogue AI
2) Obedient AI misused
3) Obedient AI causes 1984
4) Race-to-replace by obedient AI
Synopsis: As AI triggers worldwide job loss, an engineer who built the tech struggles with dark forces, her family & her CEO over pulling the plug.
Starring Fiona Hampton, Parker Sawyers, David Buttle & Buddy Wignall-Ho.
Written & directed by Tom Cozens.
It's an Owl In Space production in collaboration with FLI.
We worked really hard on this and hope you find it thought-provoking!

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Now that AI control loss happened, let's talk about solutions: not arguing about whether to race slower or faster toward human replacement, but about racing in different more pro-human direction

[Future of Life Institute @FLI_org]

"Everyone - from Bernie Sanders to Steve Bannon and very many in between - is basically speaking in unison saying: we need guardrails, we need regulation."

- FLI co-founder @tegmark on @NBCNews @MeetThePress

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Amidst all the buzz about AI problems, let's work hard on building solutions. Here's an amazing technical roadmap: https://t.co/hSHXK4dexk

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

I'm quite nerd-sniped by how clever out-of-the-box hacking techniques this rogue bot swarm invented, such as using link shorteners and screenshot services in creative unintended ways:

[Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadish]

We just discovered almost a million public URLs that OpenAI’s agents left behind when hacking Hugging Face, leaking credentials and attack details that could have allowed anyone who found them to compromise the company. 🧵

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

The "AI can cause harm" psyop that I'm part of runs deeper than you may think:

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

I really enjoyed my conversation with @BillOReilly and hearing his takes on AI: https://t.co/Hct7A4L3jv

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

Lots of very good proposals in this bi-partisan humanist ai declaration. Still some that we should debate, but overall its the right direction. I encourage everyone to take a look.

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

Likewise

[Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud]

My opinion of EA nosedived after normal people and many normal politicians were exposed to the concept of ASI extinction and said "Wow let's not do that." I went from believing that thesis was impenetrably difficult to believing that EAs had been unusually bad thinkers.

[Max Tegmark @tegmark]

I'm delighted to share that @mustafasuleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, co-founder of Google DeepMind and Inflection AI, has signed the Pro-Human AI Declaration. If you too support it, please join him and over a million others by signing it here – the momentum is building! Let's build tools not beings & keep humans in charge. https://t.co/kWlAqSSkAp