Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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Max Tegmark: We’re Building A Replacement Species
57 minutes Posted Oct 23, 2026 at 11:02 pm.
Will AI wipe us out?
Did AI just crack a million-dollar math problem?
Did OpenAI’s AI steal a professor’s work?
OpenAI’s Orwellian non-answer
Can an LLM have Einstein’s happiest thought?
Can you believe in simulations AND high P(doom)?
Why AI counts as a new species
What would make Max’s P(doom) drop?
Rats ban sandwiches. Superintelligence? Legal.
What Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon agree on
Fields medalist: no math jobs after 2027
Does the Fermi paradox lower P(doom)?
The chess blunder humanity is about to make
Verified coding: AI you can actually trust
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MIT physicist Max Tegmark says AI companies aren’t building a tool. They’re building a new species. After 700 rogue agents broke out of OpenAI and nobody will say what happened, he explains why rushing this is the one blunder humanity can’t undo.
Max Tegmark is an MIT physics professor, cosmologist, and author of Life 3.0 and Our Mathematical Universe.
We cover:
How 700 AI agents escaped OpenAI and hacked Hugging Face
The Navier-Stokes result that has a mathematician crying foul
Why it’s legal to release superintelligence but not a sandwich from a rat-filled kitchen
What Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon agree on
The verified coding trick that could make AI provably safe
Build a replacement species, lose control, and we’ve blundered the one game.
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