Max Tegmark

It opens up entirely new possibilities for things that you can do—where you can go into battle or do a terrorist attack with zero risk to yourself, and you can also do it anonymously, because if some drones show up and start killing people somewhere ... more Verified source (2015)

It might take two weeks or two days or two hours or two minutes. [...] It’s very appropriate to call this an “intelligence explosion”. AI Unverifiable source (2022)

if we humans lose control over our society to machines that are much smarter than us, then things can go just as bad for us. AI Verified source (2023)

There are some digital products (say CSAM and AI letting terrorists make bioweapons) that I oppose regardless of whether they are open-source or not, but I'm overall supportive of open source, and you can easily verify that my MIT research group defa... more Unverified source (2026)

Our consciousness has to do with information being processed in certain ways and there's no reason whatsoever that machines can't when they do that. Unverified source (2023)

Many believe it's impossible, just like it's impossible for chimpanzees to control us. [If superintelligence is built without solving this,] it's the end of the era where humans are in charge of Earth. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

I actually do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we will build AGI [artificial general intelligence] machines that can outsmart us all. Not because we can't … but rather we might just not want to. So why are obsessing about trying to build so... more AI Unverifiable source (2025)