Max Tegmark | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Swedish American |
Alma mater | Royal Institute of Technology (MSE) Stockholm School of Economics (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Cosmology, physics, machine learning |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Future of Life Institute |
Thesis | Probes of the Early Universe (1994) |
Doctoral advisor | Joseph Silk |
Signature | |
Max Erik Tegmark (born 5 May 1967)[1] is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author.[2] He is best known for his book Life 3.0 about what the world might look like as artificial intelligence continues to improve. Tegmark is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the president of the Future of Life Institute.[3][4]