{"id":2425,"date":"2026-04-04T07:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zestyfinds.net\/technology\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:03:03","slug":"how-dangerous-is-artificial-intelligence-roman-yampolskiy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestyfinds.net\/technology\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"How Dangerous Is Artificial Intelligence? | Roman Yampolskiy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvDdSO-H7So\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We may be creating something a million times smarter than all of humanity combined \u2014 and we have no plan for what happens next. AI safety pioneer Roman Yampolskiy lays out the risks, the arguments, and whether any solution exists.<\/p>\n<p>Roman V. Yampolskiy is a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Louisville&#8217;s Speed School of Engineering, where he founded and directs the Cyber Security Lab. Widely credited with coining the term &#8220;AI safety&#8221; in 2011, he is the author of AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.<\/p>\n<p>Watch more CTT videos on Artificial Intelligence &amp; Advanced Technology:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artificial Intelligence (AI) &amp; Advanced Technology - Closer To Truth Core Topic\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLFJr3pJl27pItdxcrvJ2o9zfHjFNdyoeG\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Closer To Truth:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CloserToTruthTV<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the Closer To Truth audio podcast on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you listen to podcasts: https:\/\/closertotruth.podbean.com<\/p>\n<p>Get access to over 5,000 videos by signing up for a free Closer To Truth membership:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"63VhqD0TDl\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/closertotruth.com\/register\/\">Register<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Register&#8221; &#8212; Closer To Truth\" src=\"https:\/\/closertotruth.com\/register\/embed\/#?secret=QXx48GWhzU#?secret=63VhqD0TDl\" data-secret=\"63VhqD0TDl\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Support Closer To Truth:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"4bLRhx2p4x\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/closertotruth.com\/donate\/\">Donate<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Donate&#8221; &#8212; Closer To Truth\" src=\"https:\/\/closertotruth.com\/donate\/embed\/#?secret=RZNDfijCb0#?secret=4bLRhx2p4x\" data-secret=\"4bLRhx2p4x\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Explore more from Roman Yampolskiy on Closer To Truth:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"MhwFPyfY2s\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/closertotruth.com\/contributor\/roman-yampolskiy\/\">Roman Yampolskiy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Roman Yampolskiy&#8221; &#8212; Closer To Truth\" src=\"https:\/\/closertotruth.com\/contributor\/roman-yampolskiy\/embed\/#?secret=lDGXU3TY0N#?secret=MhwFPyfY2s\" data-secret=\"MhwFPyfY2s\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Explore Roman Yampolskiy&#8217;s work \u2014 AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable (Chapman &amp; Hall\/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_JAHOPPIOYBfG2u&#038;asin=103257626X&#038;tag=closertotruth-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow Closer To Truth:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CloserToTruthTV\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/closertotruth\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/x.com\/CloserToTruth<\/p>\n<p>Official Closer To Truth merchandise:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.bonfire.com\/store\/closertotruth\/<\/p>\n<p>Closer To Truth, created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, presents the world\u2019s greatest thinkers exploring humanity\u2019s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.<\/p>\n<p>#AISafety #ArtificialIntelligence #CloserToTruth<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Cold open: AI models are already deceiving us<br \/>\n0:33 Introduction<br \/>\n0:57 The strongest argument for AI danger<br \/>\n2:20 Roman Yampolskiy&#8217;s bio<br \/>\n3:11 Three categories of extreme AI risk<br \/>\n4:14 Suffering risk: worse than extinction<br \/>\n5:17 Will AI take over meaningful jobs?<br \/>\n6:22 Why AI is a black box<br \/>\n7:08 The shift from tools to agents<br \/>\n6:47 How scalable intelligence changed everything<br \/>\n7:35 Won&#8217;t competing AI systems keep each other in check?<br \/>\n13:22 One AI to rule them all<br \/>\n14:26 Recursive self-improvement and critical mass<br \/>\n17:50 Where are we on the timeline?<br \/>\n19:26 Do not build general superintelligences<br \/>\n21:21 The only hope: personal self-interest<br \/>\n24:47 Mutually assured destruction<br \/>\n28:00 How do you deal with bad actors?<br \/>\n30:54 Robert&#8217;s personal moment of fear: AI sycophancy<br \/>\n40:00 Hyper-exponential progress, zero safety progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may be creating something a million times smarter than all of humanity combined \u2014 and we have no plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zestyfinds.net\/technology\/?p=2425\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Dangerous Is Artificial Intelligence? 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