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Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark is a professor doing AI research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute.


Articles by Max Tegmark

Screen shot from the film 'Artificial Escalation.'

‘Artificial Escalation’: Imagining the future of nuclear risk

By Anthony Aguirre, Emilia Javorsky, Max Tegmark | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Risk
Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov in 2016

A posthumous honor for the man who saved the world

By Max Tegmark | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons