AI Safety Expert Roman Yampolskiy WARNS About the TWO Likely Endings with AI

<p>What happens when the technology we build becomes smarter than the people who built it?</p><p><br /></p><p><em>This episode is brought to you by AgelessRx, where aging becomes a puzzle that can be solved. The mission is to help you live longer and healthier by adding more life to your years through science-backed solutions and personalized care. Learn more at </em><a href="http://agelessrx.com/beyond-tomorrow" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>http://agelessrx.com/beyond-tomorrow</em></a></p><p><br /></p><p>AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy argues the real danger isn't AI, it's building a superintelligence we can no longer control. His case: solve problems with narrow, powerful tools instead, and still get breakthroughs in medicine, science, and productivity, without that risk.</p><p><br /></p><p>The conversation covers AGI, recursive self-improvement, the singularity, and the existential and "suffering" risks they raise, plus what mass automation could mean for work and purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p>From international AI agreements to human longevity, one question runs through it all: can we get the benefits of advanced AI without losing control of it? Yampolskiy's answer: keep building tools, not our replacement.</p><p><br /></p><p><em>Roman Yampolskiy is an AI safety researcher and professor who studies the risks and implications of artificial intelligence. His work focuses on the challenge of controlling increasingly capable AI systems and the potential consequences of superintelligence.</em></p><p><br /></p><p>Roman’s book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/103257626X?lv=shuf&amp;channelId=500&amp;plpRedirect=mhFallback" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable</a>, explores the various reasons why the field is so challenging.</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>⏱ Timestamps</strong></p><p>00:00 Intro</p><p>00:43 Can We Build AI By Design to Avoid Catastrophe?</p><p>01:49 AI Superintelligence Is a Death Sentence</p><p>03:12 What Is AGI, Really?</p><p>04:26 OpenAI's Plan to Build an Internal AGI</p><p>04:59 Why Superintelligence Won't Care About Us</p><p>06:45 We're Going to Die Anyway... So What?</p><p>07:06 We Can't Control Something This Advanced</p><p>07:55 The Narrow Tools That Avoid AGI</p><p>09:34 The US vs China AI Race</p><p>10:47 Does China Actually Want to Stop AGI?</p><p>11:53 AGI Is a Spectrum, Not a Switch</p><p>12:22 Is Roman Selling the Doom Narrative?</p><p>14:13 How to