#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new
book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.
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https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for
the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (09:12)
- Existential risk of AGI (15:25) - Ikigai risk (23:37) - Suffering
risk (27:12) - Timeline to AGI (31:44) - AGI turing test (37:06) -
Yann LeCun and open source AI (49:58) - AI control (52:26) - Social
engineering (54:59) - Fearmongering (1:04:49) - AI deception
(1:11:23) - Verification (1:18:22) - Self-improving AI (1:30:34) -
Pausing AI development (1:36:51) - AI Safety (1:46:35) - Current AI
(1:51:58) - Simulation (1:59:16) - Aliens (2:00:50) - Human mind
(2:07:10) - Neuralink (2:16:15) - Hope for the future (2:20:11) -
Meaning of life