Max Tegmark

On our way to Anthropic!

After the viral robochalypse in AI2027, @DKokotajlo has written this excellent happy ending alternative. The race-to-replace isn't inevitable: there's a better path!

Governor Pritzker deserves credit for signing this important bill into law, which was passed with strong bipartisan support. Illinois is now the first state to require independent, third-party audits of the largest AI developers’ safety practices. With Congress still unwilling to act, the states are exercising their Tenth Amendment powers to protect their people from the risks of advanced AI. We hope to see more state legislatures and governors follow suit 🔗secureainow.org/press-release/…

New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.

📝 For our Summer 2026 AI Safety Index, a panel of independent experts graded 9 leading AI companies (@OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @GoogleDeepMind, xAI @SpaceXAI, @Zai_org, @AIatMeta, @deepseek_ai, @alibaba_cloud, and @MistralAI) on key safety & security domains. So how'd they do?👇🔗

Our report: futureoflife.org/ai-safety-inde…

We just launched our 4th biannual AI Safety Index, making it easy to distinguish who talks the talk from who walks the walk. Links in replies.

Time coverage: time.com/article/2026/0…

Q: You would prefer the human race to endure, right? A: Uuuuuuh... If more people hear the dystopian AI vision or Silicon Valley tech bros , I bet the #1 political issue will become holding them accountable:

We are at a turning point: many of the decisions we make about AI today will permanently shape our future. Governments and the public need to clearly understand the impacts, risks, and opportunities of AI to make the right choices to reap its collective benefits while mitigating its major harms. That’s why we’re launching the Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — an initial evidence-based assessment of the current state of AI science — to help the public and policymakers better understand the unprecedented moment we’re in. We have the power to steer toward a better future with AI together, open-eyed, for the benefit of all of humanity. This report begins that work. I want to thank my Co-Chair @MariaRessa as well as all my other esteemed colleagues for their exceptional contributions and our precious collaboration. You can read the Panel’s Full Report linked in the tweet below. Link to the Message from Maria Ressa and me ⬇️ un.org/independent-in…

Anthropic hired an economist who warned AI could destroy humanity, but argued "it is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence in exchange for a 2/3 chance of dramatically raising living standards by a factor of 55". This is not satire. ft.com/content/bb0467…

"AI capabilities are rapidly advancing ... it will be critical to ensure that humans remain in control of how AI is used, and of the machines that may threaten to autonomously violate the interests of the American people across all domains." — @TulsiGabbard, DNI at the time

Here's a beautifully filmed Black Mirror-style take on the race to uncontrollable superintelligence just launched by @ForegoneFilms:

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.

I'm honored to get to join so many cool AI colleagues on this list! 🥳

Don't complain about your tap water! /Big Brother

Last week, Argentina’s President Milei announced a new legal category for non-human corporations – companies run by #AI agents or robots. Like traditional corporations, they would be granted legal personhood. This could generate enormous new wealth, but very worryingly, it would also hand AIs an all-purpose key that grants access to our financial, economic and political systems. Full op-ed in today's @FT: bit.ly/YNH-Milei

If @gdb and @pmanrca_ are actually funding this false-flag operation, faking AI safety advocates caling for violence, then I interpret it as evidence that they're panicking over losing the public debate.