Max Tegmark

  • 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.

Professor of Physics, MIT