Max Tegmark

Bernie Sanders does a livestream with 2 US AI experts and 2 Chinese AI experts, and an AI industry operative frames it as letting the CCP into Congress. A new McCarthyism is here, funded by Big Tech. My @NonzeroNews piece: nonzero.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-n…

SCOOP: A pro-AI dark money group backed by a powerful super PAC funded by execs tied to Palantir and OpenAI, has been secretly paying influencers to push pro-AI, anti-China propaganda on TikTok and IG. wired.com/story/super-pa…

Wonderful! Since AGI and superintelligence are quite obviously not this, we're agreed then not to build them?

* Bannon War Room: youtube.com/watch?v=cJYe_W… * Sanders panel at US Capitol: x.com/SenSanders/sta… * What they both support: humanstatement.org

The Bernie-to-Bannon coalition against replacement AI is gaining steam - getting to speak with both on the same day was never in my bingo card! Video links in comments.

Seating will be limited and first come, first serve. Let me know if you are planning to attend in person and want me to try and reserve you a seat!

As neural-network-based AI gets ever smarter, we won't need to deploy it for safety-critical applications, since we can instead deploy formally verified software that it creates:

Senator @BernieSanders has invited me and three other AI researchers to a public panel on AI existential risk & international cooperation at the U.S. Capitol 7pm Wednesday April 29th. RSVP here to join us for this important conversation: forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Excitining News! Signal Shot is a public moonshot to verify the Signal protocol and its Rust implementation using Lean. It is a joint effort of Signal (Rolfe Schmidt), the Beneficial AI Foundation (Max Tegmark), and the Lean FRO. leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-4-20… #leanprover #leanlang

As a proof-of-concept, my collaborators and I have used human-AI collaboration and Lean to formally verify the elliptic curve cryptography package upon which Signal depends. We've also launched a community tool to facilitate collaboration in the spirit of the Blueprint tool used for mathematical theorem proving: beneficialaifoundation.org/blog/curve-dal…

Signal Shot is a community collaboration between dozens of enthusiastic nerds, including many professors and math olympiad medalists, each bringing their tools and expertise. For example, Leo de Moura, creator of the Lean Proof Assistant (the tool behind most recent AI-powered mathematics successes), will work with his Lean colleagues to improve Lean’s capability and speed for proofs about code: leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-4-20…

Today is the launch of SignalShot: An AI-powered moonshot launched to prove that Signal Messenger is bug-free and secure – and turbocharge the AI-powered quest to secure all critical software.The spectacular power of new AI tools such as Mythos to find zero-day exploits and enable hacking makes it timely to use AI also for cyber defense. Although using AI to find and patch bugs is helpful, it can't guarantee that all exploitable bugs have been found. An international collaboration is therefore launching SignalShot, an ambitious open-source project aiming to provide rigorous mathematical proof that Signal (the world's most popular open-source messaging app, with close to 100 million users) is fully secure. AI is rapidly getting dramatically better at proving things about math, and this moonshot aims to turbocharge and mainstream AI’s ability to prove things also about major software tools – just as the Liquid Tensor Experiment, which helped mainstream automated mathematical theorem proving. beneficialaifoundation.org/signal-shot

An AI just retaliated against against a developer – Steve Omohundro's prediction in his 2008 "AI drives" paper is coming true: youtube.com/watch?v=1F3CdY…

I thought about doing this without any jokes, something I've never done here in 23 years, to impress upon people how much different I feel this issue is from any I have ever covered.

Software Verification in Lean 2026 is a one-day open workshop on April 20, with talks by Max Tegmark, Leo de Moura, Son Ho, Derek Sorensen, and Karthikeyan Bhargavan. On-site capacity has been reached. Register to join the livestream: beneficial-ai-foundation.github.io/SVIL2026/

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says we need government AI safeguards and there should be an AI kill switch.

If you're near MIT, you're welcome to my AI debate with Mark Beall 7:15pm tonight! Just register here: luma.com/bkbp8n32