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Max Tegmark – MIT Faculty Page
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Max Tegmark is an MIT physics professor and prominent AI safety researcher who co-founded the Future of Life Institute and leads the Tegmark AI Safety Group, making his faculty page a useful reference for understanding his research focus on physics-based approaches to AI safety and intelligence.
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This is the official MIT faculty page for Max Tegmark, Professor of Physics, whose research bridges physics and machine learning, including AI safety. He leads the Tegmark AI Safety Group and has been a prominent public voice on AI risks and opportunities. His work spans precision cosmology, quantum information, and the physics of intelligence.
Key Points
- •Tegmark leads the Tegmark AI Safety Group at MIT, focusing on physics-based techniques to understand biological and artificial intelligence.
- •He co-founded the Future of Life Institute and has been a leading advocate for responsible AI development.
- •His research applies physics methods to AI interpretability and understanding neural networks.
- •He delivered a TED Talk in 2018 titled 'How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI.'
- •Awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences for contributions to understanding AI opportunities and risks.
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Max Tegmark
Professor of Physics
Research focuses on linking physics and machine learning: using AI for physics and physics for AI.
Research Areas
Biophysics , Astrophysics Theory
(617) 452-4627
tegmark@mit.edu
Office: Ronald McNair Building, 37-582G
Lab(s): Tegmark AI Safety Group
Affiliated Center(s):
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research at MIT , Physics of Living Systems @ MIT , The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI)
Assistant: Ty’Shauna Ross
Research Interests
Professor Tegmark’s research is focused on precision cosmology, e.g., combining theoretical work with new measurements to place sharp constraints on cosmological models and their free parameters. During his first quarter-century as a physics researcher, this criterion has lead him to work mainly on cosmology and quantum information . Although he’s continuing his cosmology work with the HERA collaboration , the main focus of his current research is on the physics of intelligence: using physics-based techniques to better understand biological and artificial intelligence (AI).
More info:
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and CMB: Movies
Murchison Widefield Array (MWA)
Omniscope
“ How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI ” [TED Talk 2018]
Biographical Sketch
A native of Stockholm, Tegmark left Sweden in 1990 after receiving his B.Sc. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (he’d earned a B.A. in Economics the previous year at the Stockholm School of Economics). His first academic venture beyond Scandinavia brought him to California, where he studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his M.A. in 1992, and Ph.D. in 1994.
After four years of west coast living, Tegmark returned to Europe and accepted an appointment as a research associate with the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik in Munich. In 1996 he headed back to the U.S. as a Hubble Fellow and member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Tegmark remained in New Jersey for a few years until an opportunity arrived to experience the urban northeast with an Assistant Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received tenure in 2003.
He extended the east coast experiment and moved north of Philly to the shores of the Charles River (Cambridge-side), arriving at MIT in September 2004. He is married to Meia-Chita Tegmark and has two sons, Philip and Alexander.
Tegmark is an author on more than two hundred technical papers, and has featured in dozens of science documentaries. He has received numerous awards for his research, including a Packard Fellowship (2001-06), Cottrell Scholar Award (2002-07), and an NSF Career grant (2002-07), and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His work with the SDSS collaboration on galaxy c
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