Lex Fridman | Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #431 @lexfridman | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and author of a new book titled AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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TRANSCRIPT:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:20 - Existential risk of AGI
8:32 - Ikigai risk
16:44 - Suffering risk
20:19 - Timeline to AGI
24:51 - AGI turing test
30:14 - Yann LeCun and open source AI
43:06 - AI control
45:33 - Social engineering
48:06 - Fearmongering
57:57 - AI deception
1:04:30 - Verification
1:11:29 - Self-improving AI
1:23:42 - Pausing AI development
1:29:59 - AI Safety
1:39:43 - Current AI
1:45:05 - Simulation
1:52:24 - Aliens
1:53:57 - Human mind
2:00:17 - Neuralink
2:09:23 - Hope for the future
2:13:18 - Meaning of life

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