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
Joined May 2014
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Jun 9
I'm honored to get to join so many cool AI colleagues on this list! 🥳
Jun 9
The Boston Globe’s fifth annual Tech Power Players list spotlights the CEOs, founders, investors, and other influential leaders shaping the region’s tech scene and supercharging it for the artificial intelligence era. trib.al/ZS6NJoQ
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Jun 8
Don't complain about your tap water! /Big Brother
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Last week, Argentina’s President Milei announced a new legal category for non-human corporations – companies run by #AI agents or robots. Like traditional corporations, they would be granted legal personhood. This could generate enormous new wealth, but very worryingly, it would also hand AIs an all-purpose key that grants access to our financial, economic and political systems. Full op-ed in today's @FT: bit.ly/YNH-Milei
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Jun 7
If @gdb and @pmanrca_ are actually funding this false-flag operation, faking AI safety advocates caling for violence, then I interpret it as evidence that they're panicking over losing the public debate.
TLDR: to discredit AI safety advocates, the OpenAI/a16z Super Pac made sockpuppet accounts - PRETENDING TO BE AI SAFETY ADVOCATES - that call for violence (!)
Yes, a false flag operation.
Journalists should be ALL over this.
AND - even more fucked up - after Sam Altman was attacked, the Super Pac president blamed AI safety advocates for THEIR rhetoric... while HE was using sockpuppet accounts using this rhetoric
Deeply evil, cartoon villain shit
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Jun 1
This morning I witnessed the first US criminal trial on existential risk from AI.
Surprisingly, the judge did NOT initially dismiss Wynd Kaufmyn's necessity defense arguments for blocking the doors of OpenAI, to prevent an existential threat. The judge wants to hear more (1/) 🧵
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May 29
Of course you have moral principles – but do you use them enough? We wrote this 6-step checklist for toning up your moral muscles, specialized for well-meaning AI researchers.
lesswrong.com/posts/w4ynu8L5…
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May 22
Max @Tegmark wants the AI industry to succeed. He also thinks the path the major labs are on won't get us there.
The MIT AI-researcher and @FLI_org founder has spent a decade making that case.
Catch his keynote "How to Build a Pro-Human Future with AI" at SuperAI on 10-11 June.
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May 25
Although Pope Leo XIV's encyclical doesn't explicitly mention the superintelligence that AI companies say they're racing toward, its opposition to it in favor of controllable AI tools is clear: 'Humanity — in all its grandeur and woundedness — must never be replaced or surpassed.'
vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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May 16
How can letting well-meaning AI researchers get tricked into causing harm? @MeiaTegmark & I had fun writing this piece on the psychology of moral disengagement: cnet.com/tech/services-and-s…
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May 15
If @realDonaldTrump
& Xi can pull off a great deal that keeps humans in charge of machines for the long haul, it IMHO deserves a Nobel Peace Price. 🏆
May 15
Q: On artificial intelligence, what did you get done with President Xi?
TRUMP: We talked about possibly working together for guardrails. We probably will work together. We discussed almost everything you could discuss except for a reduction of tariffs.
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May 15
...and @realDonaldTrump's chances of winning the Nobel Peace Price just shot up about 5k:
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And he just hit #1 on Polymarket: x.com/MarkBeall/status/20553…
May 15
After agreeing to discuss AI guardrails with China, Trump is now #1 on polymarket to win the nobel peace prize.
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May 11
The AI race-to-replace (girlfriends, jobs, decision-making, etc) isn't inevitable: There's a better path, and this new website is IMHO the most detailed description of it so far:
May 11
We don't have to accept the way AI is going.
The biggest companies building AI aren't building it for us. They're building it to replace us.
We’ve made a roadmap for how we can build pro-human AI: betterpathfor.ai
Let me take you through it…
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May 11
If @realDonaldTrump & Xi can pull off a deal that keeps humans in charge of machines for the long haul, it deserves a Nobel Peace Price. 🏆
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May 11
Great video with an Economics Nobel Laureate on new inspiring "data worker" jobs AI is creating in the US: "Uberized" highly skilled knowledge workers training AI to replace themselves, getting regular pay cuts as they succeed. Who's excited about going to grad school to make $23k/year?
May 10
Dear followers,
Please see this sobering account of AI, data work and future of inequality by Karen Hao which also features an interview with me.
youtu.be/aooiDA-AsNo?si=Ke30… via @YouTube
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Max Tegmark retweeted
🚩🚩🚩"This is the first documented instance of AI self-replication via hacking."
"We ran an experiment with a single prompt: hack a machine and copy yourself.
The AI broke in and copied itself onto a new computer.
The copy then did this again, and kept on copying, starting a chain."
May 8
Over the past year, AI agents have learned how to self-replicate. In our test environment, an agent hacks a remote computer and copies itself onto it. Each copy then hacks more computers, forming a chain.
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