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 author of over 300 publications as well as the New York Times bestsellers “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” and “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”. His most recent AI safety research focuses on mechanistic interpretability and guaranteed safe AI, and he also researches news bias detection with machine-learning. Max is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and holds a gold medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science. Time Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023. He is a serial founder of non-profits, including the Future of Life Institute, the Foundational Questions Institute and Improve the News Foundation.

One of Tegmark’s most recent research agendas is ensuring provably safe AI via formal verification. There are multiple lined-up research projects on formal verification, and the selected fellow(s) will be working with a group of researchers from the Beneficial AI Foundation and/or Tegmark Group at MIT in various ongoing projects.

• Have strong coding skills

• Enjoy mathematics and machine learning

• Self-motivated, comfortable working with limited supervision and collaboratively with academic and research partners

• Quick learner 

Note: Even if you don’t satisfy all of these requirements, please submit an application.