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Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and author of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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  EPISODE LINKS:
  Max’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tegmark
  Max’s Website: https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark
  Pause Giant AI Experiments (open letter): https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments
  Future of Life Institute: https://futureoflife.org
  Books and resources mentioned:
  

1. Life 3.0 (book): https://amzn.to/3UB9rXB
   
2. Meditations on Moloch (essay): https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch
   
3. Nuclear winter paper: https://nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0
   
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  OUTLINE:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (00:00) - Introduction
  (07:34) - Intelligent alien civilizations
  (19:58) - Life 3.0 and superintelligent AI
  (31:25) - Open letter to pause Giant AI Experiments
  (56:32) - Maintaining control
  (1:25:22) - Regulation
  (1:36:12) - Job automation
  (1:45:27) - Elon Musk
  (2:07:09) - Open source
  (2:13:39) - How AI may kill all humans
  (2:24:10) - Consciousness
  (2:33:32) - Nuclear winter
  (2:44:00) - Questions for AGI

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