AI Will End Humanity. No One Knows How To Stop It - Dr Roman Yampolskiy
4/15/20261 hr 12 min
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First 90 secondsKonstantin Kisin· Host0:00
[instrumental music] How will AI destroy humanity?
Roman Yampolskiy· Guest0:03
It's the most important problem. It's capable of coming up with new weapons, new physics, new poisons. Nobody's claiming to have a safety mechanism. It definitely has potential to lock in dictatorships. If it's AI dictatorship, they're immortal.
Konstantin Kisin· Host0:19
Right. Let's try a counterargument. Um, what if humanity becomes sort of like, you know, a nice pet for the AI- [laughs] ... to maintain, to look after?
Roman Yampolskiy· Guest0:31
Problem is you are not in control. Sometimes owners decide to put you to sleep or neuter you. It does have self-preservation instinct.
Konstantin Kisin· Host0:41
And it's already deceiving us.
Roman Yampolskiy· Guest0:43
Yeah, definitely.
Konstantin Kisin· Host0:44
Wow! I can see why you're concerned.
Roman Yampolskiy· Guest0:48
I'm surprised that more people are not freaking out.
Konstantin Kisin· Host0:52
So I guess the obvious question is: What do you advocate that we now do?
Francis Foster· Host0:58
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Konstantin Kisin· Host1:12
Roman, welcome to Trigonometry.
Roman Yampolskiy· Guest1:15
Thank you for inviting me.
Konstantin Kisin· Host1:16
Uh, great to have you on. You are one of the leading people in, uh, the AI safety world, I would say, uh, both in terms of the work you do, but also in terms of the things you say. Uh, why