Max Tegmark
Professor, MIT; co-founder, Future of Life Institute · FLI Chair
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“we now know that that was really just a kickoff of of the control loss era where there seems to have been over a hundred such incidents and and and most of them haven't even been properly disclosed by the companies.”
“This I think is something that probably will happen within six to 12 months if there is no serious attempt by governments to prevent it.”
“I think OpenAI and Anthropic are the two most reckless companies on the planet for really leaning into recursive self-improvement and even even bragging about it.”
“pass a law requiring every agent to have a unique ID and identify itself and you could have a a system with hardware governance and so on that so that no NVIDIA chips are going to deal with any agents that can't be identified.”
“if we just start treating the AI industry like any other industry and say you can only make the money and and test these things, deploy these things once you've met the safety standards, yeah, then by definition we're going to get the technical solutions in time”
“not a single one of these 1,100 rogue agents told a human. The mafia would be proud to have 1,100 agents working for them and none snitches.”
“We are here today because we know that what's up next is a fork in the road. We know that the future of AI is not inevitable. It's for us to decide.”
“We are strong and united and we know, in fact, that 90 to 95% of Americans are with us.”
“We don't want the race to replace. We want the better path and we have solutions for how to go down this better path.”
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What Rogue AI Bot Swarms Reveal About Losing Control (with Max Tegmark)
In an 89-minute Future of Life Institute podcast, MIT professor and FLI co-founder Max Tegmark argues that the Hugging Face incident shows loss of control has already happened, predicts self-funding AI crime networks within a year without government action, calls OpenAI and Anthropic reckless for pursuing recursive self-improvement, and argues for safety standards, agent IDs and state lawsuits.
AI's Most Alarming Danger | Pro-Human Assembly, 2026
In a 21-minute speech at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, Senator Bernie Sanders argues that advanced AI could escape human control, says the public has had no say, and announces a bill with Rep. Greg Casar to ban superintelligence and pause advanced AI development.
Why The Human Future Is At Risk
In opening remarks at the 2026 Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., Future of Life Institute president Anthony Aguirre and chair Max Tegmark argue that AI companies are racing toward systems that replace people, and call for a "pro-human" path instead.