Is Activism Against Nuclear Weapons Effective?-Max Tegmark and Matthew Gentzel-EAGxBoston 2018

Max Tegmark is a Professor of Physics at MIT, co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and Scientific Director of the Foundational Questions Institute. His research has ranged from cosmology to the physics of cognitive systems, and is currently focused at the interface between physics, AI and neuroscience. He is the author of over 200 publications and the books Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. His work with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine’s “Breakthrough of the Year: 2003”.
Matthew Gentzel is a graduate student at the University of Maryland studying International Security and Economic Policy and was recently accepted into the Strategic Studies Program at John’s Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies for fall 2018. He currently helps teach an applied policy and intelligence analysis class on CRISPR/Cas9 technology and has worked as an EA grantee in risk analysis on topics such as nuclear policy, AI forecasting, and strategy. Previously he studied Engineering and Statistics at the University of Maryland and founded Effective Altruism Policy Analytics, an experiment aiming for low-cost, research based policy influence via sending federal agencies cost-benefit analysis on their proposed policies.
This event took place at EAGx Boston, April 21, 2018.

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