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American Thought Leaders

Max Tegmark on AI Superintelligence: We’re Creating an ‘Alien Species’ That Would Replace Us

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Few people understand artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as MIT physics professor Max Tegmark. Founder of the Future of Life Institute, he is the author of “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”

“The painful truth that’s really beginning to sink in is that we’re much closer to figuring out how to build this stuff than we are figuring out how to control it,” he says.

Where is the U.S.–China AI race headed? How close are we to science fiction-type scenarios where an uncontrollable superintelligent AI can wreak major havoc on humanity? Are concerns overblown? How do we prevent such scenarios?

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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One of the most memory-hold stories of

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2023 was that the CEOs of all of these companies,

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Sam Altman, Demes Asabes, Dari Amade,

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signed this statement saying,

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hey, this could cause human extinction.

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Let's be careful.

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They said it.

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It's kind of like if Oppenheimer and Einstein had written a letter

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of warning that nuclear weapons could kill people,

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and then everybody just sort of forgot about it.

0:22.6

Few people understand artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as MIT physics

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professor Max Tegmark.

0:29.6

He's the author of Life 3.0, being human in the age of artificial intelligence, and founder

0:35.6

of the Future of Life Institute.

0:37.7

The painful truth that's really beginning to sink in

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is that we're much closer to figuring out

0:41.7

how to build this stuff than we are figuring out

0:44.4

how to control it.

0:45.5

Where's the US-China AI race headed?

0:48.1

How closer we to science fiction type scenarios

0:51.4

where an uncontrollable AI can wreak major havoc on humanity.

0:55.4

And how do we prevent that?

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