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AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable
Roman Yampolskiy
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Roman Yampolskiy
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This book by Roman Yampolskiy has come up 3 times across 3 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Roman Yampolskiy, Steven Bartlett. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-06-02 and the most recent from 2025-09-04. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“This book, which I think everybody should check out, I think it was published in 2024, gives a holistic view on many of the things we've talked about today, preventing AI failures.”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Dr. Roman Yampolskiy: A computer scientist and associate professor who coined the term 'AI safety' and has researched the control problem for roughly 15 years. He is a globally recognized voice warning that superintelligence cannot be made safe. AI safety expert Roman Yampolskiy argues superintelligence is near, uncontrollable, and could make humanity 99% unemployed or extinct.
“Oh Roman, when you write a book like this and let everybody know your book... AI unexplainable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable.”— Roman Yampolskiy
The guest here is Roman Yampolskiy: Computer scientist and AI safety researcher who earned his PhD in 2008 working on online casino bot security. He argues that controlling superintelligence is provably impossible and authored 'AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.'. AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy argues superintelligence is fundamentally uncontrollable and may already pose an existential threat to humanity.
“an AI Safety and Security research and author of a new book titled AI unexplainable unpredictable uncontrollable”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Roman Yampolskiy: An AI safety and security researcher and professor at an engineering school with a PhD in engineering. He is the author of the book 'AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable' and argues there is a near-100% chance that AGI will eventually destroy human civilization. AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy argues superintelligent AI is fundamentally uncontrollable and poses near-certain existential risk to humanity.
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