Max Tegmark: AI and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #155

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:49 - AI and physics
16:07 - Can AI discover new laws of physics?
24:57 - AI safety
42:33 - Extinction of human species
53:31 - How to fix fake news and misinformation
1:15:05 - Autonomous weapons
1:30:28 - The man who prevented nuclear war
1:40:36 - Elon Musk and AI
1:54:14 - AI alignment
2:00:16 - Consciousness
2:09:20 - Richard Feynman
2:13:30 - Machine learning and computational physics
2:24:28 - AI and creativity
2:35:42 - Aliens
2:51:25 - Mortality

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