Joe Rogan Experience #2345 - Roman Yampolskiy

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

July 3, 2025

Duration

2h 14m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist, AI safety researcher, and professor at the University of Louisville. He’s the author of several books, including "Considerations on the AI Endgame," co-authored with Soenke Ziesche, and "AI: Unexplained, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable." http://cecs.louisville.edu/ry/ Upgrade your wardrobe and save on @TrueClassic at https://trueclassic.com/rogan

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Roman Yampolskiy

  guest

• Joe Rogan

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Roman Yampolskiy and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #2345 - Roman Yampolskiy explores aI Doom, Simulation Theory, And Humanity’s Vanishing Margin For Error Joe Rogan and AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy discuss why advanced AI, especially superintelligence, is likely uncontrollable and may pose an existential risk to humanity. Yampolskiy argues that no one has a proven, scalable safety mechanism for superintelligent systems, and that financial and geopolitical incentives are driving an unstoppable race to build them. They explore scenarios from subtle dependence and societal decay to outright extinction or extreme long‑term suffering, as well as the idea that we may already be living in a simulation created by future or alien intelligences. The conversation also covers human meaning in an automated world, social media and AI‑driven manipulation, Neuralink‑style brain interfaces, and why Yampolskiy still wants to be proven wrong.

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