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Sweden Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, known for his work in cosmology and for raising awareness about artificial intelligence's potential impact.
Max Tegmark continues his cosmology work with the HERA collaboration.
Max Tegmark is a professor doing AI and physics research at MIT as part of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence & Fundamental Interactions and the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines.
He is the president of the Future of Life Institute, a non-profit organization focused on mitigating existential risks facing humanity.
He is also a scientific director at the Foundational Questions Institute, which funds research into the fundamental nature of reality.
Max Tegmark has received research grants from Elon Musk to investigate existential risk from artificial intelligence.
Max Tegmark gave a TED Talk in 2018 titled 'How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI.'
His work with the SDSS collaboration on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine's 'Breakthrough of the Year: 2003.'
From 2020 onward, Tegmark led a research team-turned-nonprofit at MIT that developed an AI-driven news aggregator known as 'Improving the News,' rebranded to 'Verity News' in 2023.
Max Tegmark was born Max Erik Shapiro on May 5, 1967, in Stockholm, Sweden. He received a B.A. in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a B.Sc. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1990. During his high school years, Tegmark, alongside a friend, developed and marketed a word processor and a 3D Tetris-like game. He then moved to California, earning an M.A. in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1994 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Joseph Silk. After a period as a research associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik in Munich, he became a Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1996. He later joined the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor, receiving tenure in 2003.
In September 2004, Tegmark moved to MIT, where he is currently a Professor of Physics. His early research focused on precision cosmology, utilizing information theory-based data analysis tools for cosmic microwave background experiments (like COBE, QMAP, and WMAP) and galaxy redshift surveys (such as the Las Campanas Redshift Survey, 2dF Survey, and Sloan Digital Sky Survey). He co-introduced the concept of baryon acoustic oscillations as a standard ruler and, with Angelica de Oliveira-Costa and Andrew Hamilton, identified the anomalous multipole alignment in WMAP data, known as the “axis of evil.” He also contributed to the cosmological interpretation of quantum mechanics and formulated the “mathematical universe hypothesis,” detailed in his 2014 book, “Our Mathematical Universe.”
More recently, Tegmark’s research has shifted towards the physics of intelligence, exploring both biological and artificial intelligence (AI). He is a co-founder and president of the Future of Life Institute, which works to mitigate existential risks from advanced technologies, particularly AI. He is also a scientific director at the Foundational Questions Institute. Tegmark is the author of over 300 technical papers and the New York Times bestseller “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (2017), which examines the future of humanity in an age of improving AI. In 2024, he was part of the team that developed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, a new class of neural networks.
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