# We Can Have Powerful AI Without Losing Control by Max Tegmark > "We can have almost everything that we’re excited about with AI [if we simply insist on having some basic safety standards before people can sell powerful AI systems]." > **— Max Tegmark**, *2025 CNBC interview, quoted by MIT News* ## Sources and Context - **Exact published quoted clauses:** “I think, on an optimistic note here, we can have almost everything that we’re excited about with AI,” says Tegmark, “if we simply insist on having some basic safety standards before people can sell powerful AI systems.” MIT News inserts “says Tegmark” between adjacent clauses; the poster joins the condition visibly in brackets. - **Editorial repair and evidence:** Brackets supply Tegmark's safety-standards condition in MIT's account of the CNBC interview. The opening discourse phrase is trimmed; his claim remains conditional. [Direct source](https://news.mit.edu/news-clip/beyond-valley). No timecode is asserted. - **Full quotation and context:** [Fears around uncontrollable AI are growing — two top AI scientists explain why](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/24/fears-around-uncontrollable-ai-are-growing-two-top-ai-scientists-explain-why.html) — The Davos interview completes the sentence with Tegmark's condition: demonstrable safety standards and control. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Skeuomorphic Interval|The Skeuomorphic Interval]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Control Theory|Control Theory]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]] - [[wiki/Operational Autonomy|Operational Autonomy]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "We can have almost everything that we’re excited about with AI [if we simply insist on having some basic safety standards before people can sell powerful AI systems]." — Max Tegmark, 2025 CNBC interview, quoted by MIT News https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-max-tegmark-ai-without-losing-control ```