Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

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49 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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They're becoming better at programming.

They're better at proving mathematical theorems.

We saw multiple mathematical theorems which stood the test of time, been out for 50, 60, 80 years, proven within this month.

Again, I'm just not sure what warning shot would make people go, okay, this is getting out of hand.

I think anyone building killer robots, which by definition are excellent at killing humans, is doing something unethical, something immoral.

It's easy to justify it, but it's not what we see.

We see drone warfare now killing more people than previously.

It's so much easier to deploy.

It's easier to go to war.

Cost of going to war is lower.

So I think it's a terrible thing.

We are worried about superintelligence becoming an adversary, and here we are.

converting, you know, humanoid robot bodies into killing machines.

This is dystopian.

I don't know why anyone would think it's a good idea.

And to address concerns of Nick, he clearly spent more time thinking about it than anyone.

I think a lot of benefits we want, including healing

diseases, life extension, can be accomplished with narrow superintelligent tools.

It doesn't have to be general superintelligence.

We can do something similar to what we did for protein folding problem.

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