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Max Tegmark

Mathematical Universe; AI-and-cosmology synthesis.

Max Tegmark is a professor of physics at MIT and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. He is best known for the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis — the conjecture that physical reality is itself a mathematical structure — and for two widely read books bridging cosmology and AI risk. He has been a prominent voice urging caution in advanced AI development.

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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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