Max Tegmark

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Max Tegmark: AI and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #155

Jan 17, 2021

Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
2:49 - AI and physics
16:07 - Can AI discover new laws of physics?
24:57 - AI safety
42:33 - Extinction of human species
53:31 - How to fix fake news and misinformation
1:15:05 - Autonomous weapons
1:30:28 - The man who prevented nuclear war
1:40:36 - Elon Musk and AI
1:54:14 - AI alignment
2:00:16 - Consciousness
2:09:20 - Richard Feynman
2:13:30 - Machine learning and computational physics
2:24:28 - AI and creativity
2:35:42 - Aliens
2:51:25 - Mortality

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Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371

Apr 13, 2023

Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
1:56 - Intelligent alien civilizations
14:20 - Life 3.0 and superintelligent AI
25:47 - Open letter to pause Giant AI Experiments
50:54 - Maintaining control
1:19:44 - Regulation
1:30:34 - Job automation
1:39:48 - Elon Musk
2:01:31 - Open source
2:08:01 - How AI may kill all humans
2:18:32 - Consciousness
2:27:54 - Nuclear winter
2:38:21 - Questions for AGI