Max Tegmark

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)

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)

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)

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)