--- title: "Max Tegmark: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Max Tegmark, President, Future of Life Institute. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-max-tegmark source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Max Tegmark, Max Tegmark AI, Max Tegmark quotes, Max Tegmark statements, Max Tegmark on AI, what Max Tegmark said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Max Tegmark, President, Future of Life Institute. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-max-tegmark The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Max Tegmark [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-max-tegmark) President, Future of Life Institute; professor, MIT · Future of Life Institute ## Why now No headline this week names Max Tegmark. ## What they said 5 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Max Tegmark, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Aug 27, 2026 In the record "There's this massive opposition to building AI that we don't know how to control, that's romancing our kids, that's teaching terrorists to make bioweapons." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [TIME](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/max-tegmark/) - Jul 7, 2026 In the record "It's encouraging to me that a company can improve so much in just six months" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [TIME](https://time.com/article/2026/07/07/ai-safety-rankings-openai-anthropic-meta/) - Oct 22, 2025 In the record "it's so important to stigmatize the race to superintelligence, to the point where the U.S. government just steps in" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2025/10/22/prince-harry-meghan-markle-wozniak-bannon-ban-superintelligence-letter) - Dec 11, 2024 In the record "We launched the Safety Index to give the public a clear picture of where these AI labs stand on safety issues." [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/ai-policy/ai-experts-major-ai-companies-have-significant-safety-gaps/) - Apr 25, 2023 In the record "If superintelligence drives humanity extinct, it probably won't be because it turned evil or conscious, but because it turned competent" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [TIME](https://time.com/6273743/thinking-that-could-doom-us-with-ai/) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Max%20Tegmark#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Connections ## Stories naming Max Tegmark ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Apr 25, 2023 ["If superintelligence drives humanity extinct, it probably won't be because it turned evil or conscious, but because it turned competent"](https://time.com/6273743/thinking-that-could-doom-us-with-ai/) - Dec 11, 2024 ["We launched the Safety Index to give the public a clear picture of where these AI labs stand on safety issues."](https://futureoflife.org/ai-policy/ai-experts-major-ai-companies-have-significant-safety-gaps/) - Oct 22, 2025 ["it's so important to stigmatize the race to superintelligence, to the point where the U.S. government just steps in"](https://fortune.com/2025/10/22/prince-harry-meghan-markle-wozniak-bannon-ban-superintelligence-letter) - Jul 7, 2026 ["It's encouraging to me that a company can improve so much in just six months"](https://time.com/article/2026/07/07/ai-safety-rankings-openai-anthropic-meta/) - Aug 27, 2026 ["There's this massive opposition to building AI that we don't know how to control, that's romancing our kids, that's teaching terrorists to m..."](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/max-tegmark/) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Max Tegmark. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Max Tegmark with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.