====== Max Tegmark ======

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**Max Erik Tegmark** is a Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist and [[machine learning]] researcher based in [[united_states:Massachusetts]].

===== History =====

Tegmark was elected Fellow of the [[American Physical Society]] in 2012 for, according to the citation, "his contributions to cosmology, including precision measurements from cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering data, tests of inflation and gravitation theories, and the development of a new technology for low-frequency radio interferometry".((//APS Fellow Archive.// American Physical Society. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=T&year=2022&unit_id=&institution=))

In early 2020, Tegmark founded [[Improve the News]] (ITN).((//About.// (2022, July 24). Improve the News. http://archive.today/2023.03.24-211532/https://lite.improvethenews.org/about/)) He published as study called //Machine-learning media bias// in August 2022.((D’Alonzo, S., & Tegmark, M. (2022). //Machine-learning media bias.// PLOS ONE, 17(8), e0271947. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271947))

===== Activities =====

Tegmark has acted as an advisor to the [[Machine Intelligence Research Institute|Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence]] and a member of the [[Institute for Advanced Study]].((//Advisors.// Singularity Institute. Retrieved February 11, 2010, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100211210711/http://singinst.org/aboutus/advisors))

Tegmark endorses [[Longview Philanthropy]].((//Home.// Longview Philanthropy. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.01.12-050111/https://www.longview.org/)) He is an expert contributor to [[PopShift]] on the topic of "Future of Tech & Morality".((//EXPERTS_Future of Tech & Morality.// PopShift (by Pathos Labs). Retrieved March 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230311002320/https://popshift.org/tech_morality/))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark|Wikipedia]]