Roman Yampolskiy

We just cut to the chase right away.

And the chase seems to be something that must be confronted because it's right there.

That's it.

That's the whole thing.

And I've tried so hard to—

listen to these people that don't think that it's a problem and listen to these people that think that it's going to be a net positive for humanity and, oh, God, it's good.

I feel better now.

But it doesn't work.

It doesn't resonate.

Right.

When you think about the future of the world and you think about these incredible technologies scaling upwards and exponentially increasing in their capability, what do you see?

Like, what do you think is going to happen?

But when you think about how it plays out, like if you're alone at night and you're worried, what do you see?

What do you see happening?

And you worry that AI would do that to the human race?

Essentially neuter us.

But aren't those human characteristics?

I mean, those are characteristics that I think

If I had to guess, those exist because in the future there was some sort of a natural selection benefit to being a psychopath in the days of tribal warfare.

That if you were the type of person that could sneak into a tribe in the middle of the night and slaughter innocent women and children, your genes would pass on.