Max Tegmark

95% of Americans don’t want a race to superintelligence, and experts want to ban it.

Many believe it’s impossible. Just like it’s impossible for chimpanzees to control us. So most likely if we build superintelligence, its the end of the era where humans are in charge of Earth.

Sadly, I now feel that we’re living the movie “Don’t look up” for another existential threat: unaligned superintelligence. [...] We need more time. [...] Just look up!

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...

I think what we've learned is it doesn't matter if you are made of carbon, silicon or some other type of atom, it's just the information processing that matters. Anything that you can do so can machines.