#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
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4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2024
⏱️ 143 minutes
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(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
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Roman Neumpolsky, an AI safety and security researcher |
| 0:05.9 | and author of a new book titled AI, Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. He argues that there's almost 100% chance that AGI will |
| 0:16.8 | eventually destroy human civilization. As an aside, let me say that I will have many often technical conversations on the topic of |
| 0:25.6 | AI often with engineers building the state-of-the-art AI systems. I would say those folks put the infamous P-Doom or the probability of a-g-I-killing all humans |
| 0:36.8 | at around 1 to 20 percent. But it's also important to talk to folks who put that value at 70, 80, 90, and in the case of Roman at 99.99 and many more |
| 0:49.6 | 9% percent. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm personally excited for the future and believe it will be a good one in part |
| 0:56.7 | because of the amazing technological innovation we humans create but we must |
| 1:02.3 | absolutely not do so with blinders on, ignoring the possible risks, including |
| 1:08.6 | existential risks of those technologies. That's what this conversation is about. |
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