Max Tegmark

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. Unverified source (2023)

AI companies for years have stalled any broad and meaningful regulation of potential harms. It's their fault that we have the race condition in the first place. [...] All of [the AI labs] succumb to the incentives... It's just maybe Anthropic is the ... more Unverified source (2026)

I really empathize for them, frankly, because they’re so stuck in this race to the bottom that they just feel an irresistible pressure to keep going and not get overtaken by the other guy. I think that’s why it’s so important to stigmatize the race t... more Verified source (2025)

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)

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 Unverified source (2025)