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Max Tegmark

@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

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"The AI industry has more lobbyists in Washington and Brussels than the fossil fuel industry and the tobacco industry combined." (full conversation below) Max Tegmark and Robert Wright

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I just learned that existential risk from AI is actually a psyop carefully orchestrated by a shadowy cabal consisting of all of the leading AI companies, the three most cited AI scientists of all time, the majority of published AI researchers, the Catholic Church, RAND, the

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I read it worse than that. I’m not voting for the development of skynet and the rise of the machines by destroying federalism for 10 years by taking away state rights to regulate and make laws on all AI. Forcing eminent domain on people’s private properties to link the future

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Sam Altman This post says solving the alignment problem is step 1 of the best path forward, but OpenAI appears to be skipping that step and racing to build superintelligence anyways?

<a href="/sama/">Sam Altman</a> This post says solving the alignment problem is step 1 of the best path forward, but OpenAI appears to be skipping that step and racing to build superintelligence anyways?
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In this interview, I describe how we can have an inspiring future with controllable tool AI that empowers us if we avoid uncontrollable AGI that replaces us.

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"Let's build AGI, then make it safe, in that order." Puzzling capabilities work from Anthropic that none of them tweeted about:

"Let's build AGI, then make it safe, in that order." Puzzling capabilities work from Anthropic that none of them tweeted about:
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A nice overview of why not to work at a frontier AI Lab, from the perspective of MIRI intelligence.org/2025/06/11/so-…

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We classify AI "elephants in the room", mysterious LLM SAE features that activate very frequently. They can be interpreted as "context elephants", "position elephants", etc:

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Elon articulates what other CEO's aren't saying out loud about the Terminator scenario: "I fear the race toward building it, but I'd rather be a participant than a bystander."