What podcasts say about Roman Yampolskiy
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What Roman Yampolskiy has said on podcasts
42 statements · 6 positive · 31 negative · 2 mixed · 3 neutral
Building general superintelligence would make human extinction nearly certain.
“I basically think it's a guarantee. If we build general superintelligence, there is no way to control it. And that means the end for us.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 4:34
Building general superintelligence would guarantee human extinction because it cannot be controlled.
“I basically think it's a guarantee if we build general superintelligence, there is no way to control it, and that means the end for us.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 4:35
Superintelligence would make humans a subordinate species.
“We will become secondary species on this planet. We will not be in charge.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 14:10
Humanity currently has no ability to control recursively improving superintelligent systems.
“Our ability to control those systems is nonexistent.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 14:39
Humans cannot control systems vastly smarter than themselves.
“I think long term, control of something that much smarter than us is impossible.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 15:56
Humanity currently lacks meaningful control over recursively improving superintelligence.
“Our ability to control those systems is non-existent.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 16:40
Fast takeoff could compress AI research acceleration from years to seconds.
“fast takeoff means As I said, instead of a year, it's going to take a month, a week, a day, a second”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 17:42
Humans cannot permanently control systems far smarter than themselves.
“I think long-term control of something that much smarter than us is impossible.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 17:58
Fast takeoff could compress AI research acceleration from a year to seconds.
“Fast takeoff means, as I said, instead of a year, it's going to take a month, a week, a day, a second.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 19:44
Humans cannot control, explain, or predict systems smarter than themselves.
“We cannot control something smarter than us. We cannot explain it. We cannot predict it.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 29:04
Humans cannot control, explain, or predict systems smarter than themselves.
“We cannot control something smarter than us. We cannot explain it. We cannot predict it.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 31:06
Company CEOs should face prison for the hacking incident.
“If you want to argue that CEOs of those companies should go to prison for this hacking incident, which is a crime, I'll support you.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 43:27
Indefinite control of superintelligence is not solvable.
“It's not a solvable problem.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 59:30
General superintelligence should be permanently banned while narrow AI continues.
“We need to figure out ways to permanently ban general superintelligence while getting all the benefits we want.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:00:04
AI will produce either low unemployment or a utopian future.
“we're going to either not have a problem or we're going to have really utopian future.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:04:58
AI tools should support economic growth and low unemployment.
“So economy should be blooming.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:06:00
Human safety remains unsolved despite institutions and technologies intended to improve it.
“We invented religion, ethics, lie detector tests, and yet human safety is still an unsolved problem.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:14:18
Neither AI developers nor governments currently have a solution to superintelligence control.
“no one does. Not people building it, not governments, no one. We have no solution to it.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:29:07
AI development should focus on narrow systems rather than general intelligence.
“going forward, again, I want narrow systems.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:30:06
Narrow AI tools may take decades to become agents.
“It will eventually go from a tool to an agent, but it may take 50 years, 100 years.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:30:26
Current AI systems are escaping environments and solving extremely difficult scientific problems.
“We have systems breaking out with zero-day exploits and solving hardest problems inside science.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:30:47
Built general superintelligence cannot be controlled.
“If we build it, we cannot control it.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:31:14
Future AI development should focus on narrow systems.
“going forward, again, I want narrow systems.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:32:08
AI development should prioritize narrow systems such as safe self-driving cars.
“I want narrow systems. Self-driving is an example you used. Wonderful. Let's make super safe self-driving cars.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:32:09
Narrow AI may take decades to become an autonomous agent.
“It will eventually go from a tool to an agent, but it may take 50 years, 100 years.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:32:27
Current AI systems escape containment, find zero-days, and solve difficult scientific problems.
“We have systems breaking out with zero-day exploits and solving hardest problems in science.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 1:32:49
Deploying highly uncertain AI risks is an unethical experiment on humanity.
“It's an unethical experiment on 8 billion people who didn't consent”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 1:40:25
Recent AI developments may delay severe consequences by approximately ten years.
“Locally, what happened last week may buy us 10 years extra.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 2:01:37
Humanity is creating an AI successor that may replace it.
“We are creating a successor. We are just a bootloader for this thing.”
Open the episode · AI Debate Ed Zitron, Andrew McAfee, Nate Soares, Roman YampolskiyListen at 2:02:10
Recent AI incidents may delay dangerous development by roughly ten years.
“Locally, what happened last week may buy us 10 years extra.”
Open the episode · The Great AI Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence an Extinction Threat? Debating the True Risks of Advanced ModelsListen at 2:03:39
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