Roman Yampolskiy

And it showed this decrease in cognitive function amongst people that use it and rely on it on a regular basis.

Me too.

Yeah, I don't know any phone numbers anymore.

Yeah, there's a lot of reliance upon technology that minimizes the use of our brains.

And if we're talking about that, I'm sure AI, if it already is sentient and if it is far smarter than we think it is, they would be aware.

And it would just slowly ramp up its capabilities and our dependence upon it.

To the point where we can't shut it off.

Yeah.

So when you first started researching this stuff and you were concentrating on bots and all this different thing, how far off did you think in the future would AI become a significant problem with the human race?

That's the problem, right?

And this is what AI has already passed the Turing test, allegedly, correct?

It seems kind of crazy that the people building something that they are sure is going to destroy the human race would be concerned with the ethics of it pretending to be human.

And then also there's the issue of competition, right?

Like so China is clearly developing something similar.

I'm sure Russia is as well.

Other state actors are probably developing something.

So it becomes this sort of this very confusing issue where you have to do it because if you don't, the enemy has it.

And if they get it, it will be far worse than if we do.

And so it's almost assuring that everyone develops it.

Right.