KTH Royal Institute of Technology
UC Berkeley
Alex RivesResearcher
MIT
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
via MIT
Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive
Max Tegmark
Founder and Chair at Future of Life InstituteProfessor of Physics at MIT
Tegmark is an MIT physicist who works on cosmology and the foundations of machine learning. He co-founded and leads the Future of Life Institute, becoming a leading advocate for AI safety — including its 2023 open letter calling for a pause on giant AI experiments — and wrote the bestseller Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
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Background
Current roles
Founder and Chair 2014-presentFuture of Life Institute
Future of Life InstituteProfessor of Physics 2009-presentMIT
MITPreviously
2000-2004Assistant Professor -> Associate Professor, 
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania1996-1999Postdoc, 
Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced StudyBorn1967
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