No. 89 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Physicist, MIT; Future of Life Institute
Max Tegmark is an MIT physicist who leads the Future of Life Institute.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Max Tegmark's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Argued at the Munk Debates that AI poses an existential threat.
Tegmark began as a cosmologist and turned to artificial intelligence, writing Life 3.0.
He advocates for limits on the development of the most advanced AI systems.
On the record
2023
June 22, 2023
Formal debateLost the audience vote
Against Melanie Mitchell and Yann LeCun · Munk Debates, Toronto
Max Tegmark argued for the motion with Yoshua Bengio. The con side won the audience vote, swinging 3 percent.
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