Max Tegmark is one of my favorite AI “personalities.” In addition to being a noted theoretical physicist and tenured professor at MIT, his notable accomplishments include:

• author: Life 3.0 — must read.
  A well-written book about our human future in the face of AGI / ASI, and how that might actually come to play out.
• founder: Future of Life Institute
• organizer: Asilomar Conference on the Ethical Development of AI
• speaker : TED, and TED.AI
• co-author: the AI Pause Letter: “Pause Giant AI Experiments, An Open Letter”, March 22, 2023

This was Max, utterly prescient, speaking at TED in 2018 about the promise and perils of AGI:

 

Max Tegmark related links:

• The AI Pantheon
• Asilomar Principles of Ethical AI

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photo credit:  “Gregory Roberts & Max Tegmark at TED.AI 2023, San Francisco” — author’s private collection — photo by Emilia Javorsky