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Lex Fridman PodcastRoman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #431
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- Released
- June 2, 2024
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- 2h 15m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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TRANSCRIPT: https://lexfridman.com/roman-yampolskiy-transcript EPISODE LINKS: Roman's X: https://twitter.com/romanyam Roman's Website: http://cecs.louisville.edu/ry Roman's AI book: https://amzn.to/4aFZuPb PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:20 - Existential risk of AGI 8:32 - Ikigai risk 16:44 - Suffering risk 20:19 - Timeline to AGI 24:51 - AGI turing test 30:14 - Yann LeCun and open source AI 43:06 - AI control 45:33 - Social engineering 48:06 - Fearmongering 57:57 - AI deception 1:04:30 - Verification 1:11:29 - Self-improving AI 1:23:42 - Pausing AI development 1:29:59 - AI Safety 1:39:43 - Current AI 1:45:05 - Simulation 1:52:24 - Aliens 1:53:57 - Human mind 2:00:17 - Neuralink 2:09:23 - Hope for the future 2:13:18 - Meaning of life SOCIAL:
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SPEAKERS
Roman Yampolskiy
guestLex Fridman
host
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Roman Yampolskiy and Lex Fridman, Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #431 explores Roman Yampolskiy Warns: Superintelligent AI Almost Guarantees Human Doom Roman Yampolskiy argues that creating superintelligent, self-improving AI is effectively an existential suicide mission for humanity. He distinguishes between existential risk (extinction), suffering risk (maximized, prolonged suffering), and ikigai risk (loss of meaning due to total technological unemployment and AI dominance). He contends that core safety problems—verification, control, value alignment, and explainability—are fundamentally unsolvable at the required 100% reliability over long horizons. Lex Fridman pushes back with more optimistic, incremental and engineering-based intuitions, but Yampolskiy concludes the only winning move is not to build uncontrollable superintelligence at all.
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