Max Tegmark
@tegmark
Known as Mad Max for my unorthodox ideas and passion for adventure, my scientific interests range from artificial intelligence to the ultimate nature of reality
I enjoyed this conversation with Walter Kim from the National Association of Evangelicals about shaping the future of AI: nae.org/max-tegmark-et…
AI has been chronically overhyped until about 4 years ago, but underhyped since then:
When will an AI win a Gold Medal in the International Math Olympiad? Median predicted date over time July 2021: 2043 (22 years away) July 2022: 2029 (7 years away) July 2023: 2028 (5 years away) July 2024: 2026 (2 years away) metaculus.com/questions/6728…
Truly stunning instance of ironic prophecy (An OAI model that got gold on IMO was announced about 5 hours after this post)
So, all the models underperform humans on the new International Mathematical Olympiad questions, and Grok-4 is especially bad on it, even with best-of-n selection? Unbelievable!
Now that @GoogleDeepMind has fallen behind @OpenAI on AI safety, they should up their game - and their staff should ask tough questions internally instead of saying "it's not my responsibility":
‼️📝 Our new AI Safety Index is out! ➡️ Following our 2024 index, 6 independent AI experts rated leading AI companies - @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @AIatMeta, @GoogleDeepMind, @xAI, @deepseek_ai & Zhipu AI - across critical safety and security domains. So what were the results? 🧵👇
Bernie Sanders on the threat of losing control to AI - "this is not science fiction."
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says the threat of superintelligent AI deciding it doesn't need us is a real risk. "We've never been in that situation before. We've never had to deal with things smarter than us."
Great that all wrongthinkers are unpersoned, from both left and right:
UK Home Office vaporizes Renaud Camus for thoughtcrimes re: immigration. His ideas are too false to debate, too dangerous to ignore, and too nonexistent to mention. You never read this.
Will AI ruin film by turning us into dopamine junkies with ennui?
Why AI Will Ruin Every Movie You Watch (You Won’t See It Coming) 🎥 14.5-min short documentary ⬇️
Facing St. Peter at the pearly gates, after a big AI screw-up.
Sverige är nu Europa-sämst på AI-säkerhet efter att @UlfKristersson blivit första EU-stadschef som vill fördröja delar av EUs AI-lag. Det är Ulf och inte lagen som är förvirrad:
"I’m increasingly frustrated by the tendency to pit 'doomers' against AI 'optimists'...most optimists are not, fundamentally, AI optimists - they are superintelligence skeptics" slowboring.com/p/what-the-ai-…
"I’m increasingly frustrated by the tendency to pit 'doomers' against AI 'optimists'...most optimists are not, fundamentally, AI optimists - they are superintelligence skeptics" slowboring.com/p/what-the-ai-…
Great @joerogan podcast with @romanyam without sugar-coating: racing to superintelligence would end humanity as we know it:
Joe Rogan and Roman Yampolskiy agree that to "integrate" with superintelligence is "extinction with extra steps".
Joe Rogan on superintelligence: "I feel like when people are saying they can control it, I feel like I'm being gaslit. I don't believe them. I don't believe that they believe it, because it just doesn't make sense."
We turned up in our droves outside Google DeepMind's office to hold them accountable for their broken promises. 🧵
The Senate just voted 99-1 to drop the OpenAI/Google plan to ban state AI regulation for a decade. To my AI safety friends working there: why don't you openly criticize your companies for pushing this shit?
Congress may ban states from passing their own AI rules, giving Big Tech a free pass on AI... for the next 10 years. As AI speeds up with 0 guardrails, this would endanger our families, livelihoods & communities. Thankfully, Americans from across the aisle are speaking up 🧵👇
Amazingly bipartisan support for big tech AI accountability:
Congress may ban states from passing their own AI rules, giving Big Tech a free pass on AI... for the next 10 years. As AI speeds up with 0 guardrails, this would endanger our families, livelihoods & communities. Thankfully, Americans from across the aisle are speaking up 🧵👇