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Physicist, AI Researcher
You never have to worry that some drug company is going to release some other drug that causes massive harm before people have figured out how to make it safe, because the FDA won't allow them to release anything until it's safe enough. [...] In the U.S. they regulate sandwiches more than AI. [...] There's something quite remarkable that has happened in America just in the last four months. Polling suddenly [is showing] that 95% of all Americans oppose an unregulated race to superintelligence. AI Verified source (2026)
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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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AI Verified Verified. Quote attributed to Max Tegmark (physicist, AI researcher, president of the Future of Life Institute), year 2026. WebFetch of the TechCrunch podcast source_url returned HTTP 403, but a web search confirmed all the distinctive elements as well-documented Tegmark statements: the FDA/drug-safety analogy and "FDA for AI" framing, the line that the U.S. regulates "sandwiches more than AI" (also reported by Euronews), and the polling claim that ~95% of Americans oppose an unregulated race to superintelligence (FLI polling, attributed to Tegmark). These are consistent with his role as FLI president and leading advocate of binding AI safety standards. The quote is relevant to statement 386 ("Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models"): Tegmark's FDA-style "demonstrate safety before release" position directly supports a "for" stance. The recent payload showed a null vote, but attempting to create a "for" vote returned "this author already has a vote for the selected statement," so the existing vote is preserved. Author attribution is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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