Max Tegmark

Accomplishments

• Founder and chair of the Future of Life Institute.¹
• Professor at MIT working on AI and physics, including mechanistic interpretability and guaranteed safe AI.¹
• Author of Life 3.0 and Our Mathematical Universe.¹
• Named to TIME100 Most Influential People in AI (2023).¹

MIT research

Tegmark is a professor at MIT working on AI and physics as part of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence & Fundamental Interactions and the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines. Recent AI safety research focuses on mechanistic interpretability and guaranteed safe AI.¹

Future of Life Institute and writing

Tegmark founded the Future of Life Institute and serves as its chair. Tegmark is also a serial founder of nonprofits including the Foundational Questions Institute and Improve the News Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. TIME named Tegmark one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023.¹

Timeline

1. 2023TIME named Tegmark one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI.¹

Honors and recognition

• Fellow of the American Physical Society · American Physical Society¹
• TIME100 AI · TIME, 2023¹

Where they work

• MIT 37 people in the wiki
• Future of Life Institute 3 people in the wiki

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