Max Tegmark on Why Superhuman Artificial Intelligence Won’t be Our Slave (Part 2) (People I (Mostly) Admire, Ep. 52)

He’s an M.I.T. cosmologist, physicist, and machine-learning expert, and once upon a time, almost an economist. Max and Steve continue their conversation about the existential threats facing humanity, and what Max is doing to mitigate our risk. The co-founder of the Future of Life Institute thinks that artificial intelligence can be the greatest thing to ever happen to humanity — if we don’t screw it up.

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Relevant Research & References

Here’s where you can learn more about the people and ideas in this episode:

SOURCE

• Max Tegmark, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

RESOURCES

• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Max Tegmark (2017).
• Improve the News.
• The Future of Life Institute.

EXTRA

• “Improve the News,” by Max Tegmark
• “Why Is U.S. Media So Negative? (Ep. 477),” by Freakonomics Radio (2021).

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