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Max Erik Tegmark (born 5 May 1967)^[1] is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author.^[2] He is best known for his book Life 3.0 about what the world might look like as artificial intelligence continues to improve.

Tegmark is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the president of the Future of Life Institute.^[3][4]

Biography

Early life

Tegmark was born in Sweden to Karin Tegmark and Jewish American-born professor of mathematics Harold S. Shapiro. While in high school, he and a friend created and sold a word processor written in pure machine code for the Swedish eight-bit computer ABC 80,^[5] and a 3D Tetris-like game called Frac.^[6]

Tegmark left Sweden in 1990 after receiving his M.S.E in engineering physics from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a B.A.

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