--- title: Max Tegmark | TIME description: Tegmark is a professor doing AI research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology canonical: https://time.com/author/max-tegmark/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/max-tegmark/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Max Tegmark ## Max Tegmark Tegmark is a professor doing AI research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ## Max Tegmark *  Jun 29, 2023 ### [Here's How Bad a Nuclear War Would Actually Be](https://time.com/6290977/nuclear-war-impact-essay/) We know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 25, 2023 ### [The 'Don't Look Up' Thinking That Could Doom Us With AI](https://time.com/6273743/thinking-that-could-doom-us-with-ai/) If superintelligence drives humanity extinct, it probably won’t be because it turned evil or conscio... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/max-tegmark/","name":"Max Tegmark"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/max-tegmark/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/max-tegmark/"},"name":"Max Tegmark","jobTitle":null,"description":"Tegmark is a professor doing AI research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology","url":"https://time.com/author/max-tegmark/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```