AI Safety Expert: No One Is Ready for What's Coming in 2 Years | Roman Yampolskiy

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Released

April 17, 2026

Duration

45m

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Silicon Valley Girl

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This episode is brought to you by Higgsfield — the AI video platform with Cinema Studio 2.5, built for creators who want cinematic quality without a production team. https://higgsfield.ai/s/general-siliconvalleygirl-tkNWEY Roman Yampolskiy has spent 15 years at the University of Louisville studying one question: can we control AI? His answer is no — and in 2026, he's watching the early evidence arrive. This year his CS department recorded a 28% drop in co-op placements. Prediction markets for AGI collapsed from 2045 to somewhere between 2028 and 2030. In this episode we cover what that actually means for your career, your money, and the companies racing to build what he believes cannot be controlled. If you've been using "AI" and "superintelligence" as the same word, this conversation will fix that. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:14 Which Jobs Are Already Dead 4:38 The Broken Career Ladder 9:02 What Happens to Wealth With Free Labor? 14:24 AGI to Superintelligence: The Full Progression 15:31 Why We Can't Code Ethics Into AI 19:50 Can Anyone Actually Stop This? 23:29 Roman's Personal 5-Year Prediction 28:32 Where to Invest Before It's Too Late 31:33 5 Jobs That Survive the AI Takeover 34:37 College in 2026: Worth It or Not? Links: 📩 Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/subscribe?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=futureproof-sub&utm_content=RomanYampolskiy 🔗 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ 📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co 📹 Video brainstorming, research, and project planning - all in one place - https://partner.spotterstudio.com/ideas-with-marina 💻 Resources that helps my team and me grow the business:

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Roman Yampolskiy

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  AI safety professor and researcher focused on AI control/alignment and existential risk.

• Marina Mogilko

  host

  Host of Silicon Valley Girl who interviews AI and tech leaders and researchers.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, featuring Roman Yampolskiy and Marina Mogilko, AI Safety Expert: No One Is Ready for What's Coming in 2 Years | Roman Yampolskiy explores aI safety expert warns job collapse and uncontrollable superintelligence soon Yampolskiy predicts human-level AI could arrive within roughly 2–5 years, making widespread automation a capability issue first and an economic deployment choice second.

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