Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American physicist and MIT professor who works on cosmology and artificial intelligence, and co-founded the Future of Life Institute.
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Sep 20, 2026
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The MIT physicist said AI risk concerns are uniting Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, and Capitol Hill lawmakers after a bipartisan Senate briefing.
The right is split: populists cheer Bannon for forcing AI safety onto the agenda, while free-market conservatives warn that Tegmark-style warnings become the pretext for the exact regulatory capture Trump's 'AI Force' is meant to prevent.