Max Tegmark on AI Superintelligence: We’re Creating an ‘Alien Species’ That Would Replace Us

Posted on AllSides June 4, 2025

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[RUSH TRANSCRIPT BELOW] Few people understand artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as MIT physics professor Max Tegmark. Founder of the Future of Life Institute, he is the author of “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” “The painful truth that’s really beginning to sink in is that we’re ...

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