Max Tegmark

Fisico del MIT, cofondatore e guida del Future of Life Institute, promotore della lettera per la pausa del 2023 e dell’appello del 2025 a vietare la superintelligenza, avverte che l’IA cresce più in fretta dei mezzi per controllarla.

Ruoli

set 2004 – oggiProfessor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyResearch now centred on the physics of intelligence; affiliated with IAIFI and the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines.Fonte →
mar 2014 – oggiCo-founder and President, Future of Life InstituteFLI's own site now styles him Founder and Chair; Anthony Aguirre is CEO.Fonte →

A registro

27 ago 2026 · Intervista · TIME
There's this massive opposition to building AI that we don't know how to control, that's romancing our kids, that's teaching terrorists to make bioweapons.
Co-founder and President, Future of Life Institute all’epoca
Max Tegmark: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026 →
27 feb 2026 · Dichiarazione · Future of Life Institute
All AI systems should be under meaningful human control. This is especially true for those that could be used in the taking of human lives.
Co-founder and President, Future of Life Institute all’epoca
Issued as Founder and Chair of FLI, backing AI companies that refused to permit fully autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance.
Statement from Max Tegmark on the Department of War's ultimatum →
22 ott 2025 · Dichiarazione · Future of Life Institute
95% of Americans don't want a race to superintelligence, and experts want to ban it
Co-founder and President, Future of Life Institute all’epoca
Said at the launch of FLI's "Statement on Superintelligence", which calls for a prohibition on developing superintelligence until there is scientific consensus it can be done safely; Hinton, Bengio and Russell signed.
Prince Harry, Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, and ‘AI godfathers’ call on AI labs to halt their pursuit of ‘superintelligence’ →
25 apr 2023 · Editoriale · TIME
If superintelligence drives humanity extinct, it probably won't be because it turned evil or conscious, but because it turned competent.
Co-founder and President, Future of Life Institute all’epoca
The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI →
22 mar 2023 · Lettera aperta · Future of Life Institute
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Co-founder and President, Future of Life Institute all’epoca
Published by the institute he co-founded and leads; he is a signatory alongside Bengio and Russell.
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter →