Will AI Cause Human Extinction? - AI Safety Expert: Dr. Roman Yampolskiy | AU 492

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🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy explains:
⬛How AI could release a deadly virus
⬛Why these 5 jobs might be the only ones left
⬛How superintelligence will dominate humans
⬛Why ‘superintelligence’ could trigger a global collapse by 2027
⬛How AI could be worse than nuclear weapons
⬛Why we’re almost certainly living in a simulation

Follow Dr Roman:
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Google Scholar - https://bit.ly/4gaGE72

You can purchase Dr Roman’s book, ‘Considerations on the AI Endgame: Ethics, Risks and Computational Frameworks’, here: https://amzn.to/4g4Jpa5

AI could end humanity, and we’re completely unprepared. Dr. Roman Yampolskiy reveals how AI will take 99% of jobs, why Sam Altman is ignoring safety, and how we’re heading toward global collapse…or even World War III.

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a leading voice in AI safety and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He coined the term “AI safety” in 2010 and has published over 100 papers on the dangers of AI. He is also the author of books such as, ‘Considerations on the AI Endgame: Ethics, Risks and Computational Frameworks’.

#ai #technology #tech #news #usa #world #china

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0:00.0	Huge thank you for joining us this evening and I am delighted to have Dr. Roman Yampalski with us.
0:10.6	We're going to be talking about will AI end humanity?
0:16.1	AI could possibly release a deadly virus, which jobs will eliminate, how it will dominate humans through
0:23.7	super intelligence, how a global collapse could be triggered, how AI could be worse than nuclear
0:29.7	weapons, and whether we are living in a simulation. We have got Dr. Roman's links in the description
0:37.1	box is X, his Google Scholar and his book,
0:40.6	which is called Considerations on the AI Endgame, ethics, risks, and computational frameworks
0:49.3	all down there in the description box. So support his work so huge thank you for coming on
0:57.6	thanks so much for inviting me not a lot of happy topics you planned for us what first got you
1:06.8	into this it's the most interesting topic intelligence research what it is how to measure it
1:14.2	how to create it how to detect it anything to do with intelligence is fascinating and what age
1:21.3	did that start uh the start was uh part of broader PhD in cybersecurity.
1:29.3	We were looking at how do we detect bots online.
1:34.3	So back in a day, online poker and like casinos were very common, popular and infested with poker bots. So the research was all about finding out
1:47.6	who's the real person, who's a bot,
1:49.3	and trying to make sure of bots don't seal all the resources.
1:53.0	But as the bots get smarter, we kind of scaled
1:56.2	beyond just online poker to really seeing
2:00.4	what artificial general intelligence has in store for us.
2:05.7	And, you know, there's a lot of speculation about there's a race between China and America to dominate AI.
2:15.9	Is that a valid thing?
2:18.3	It is huge.
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