Why AI Safety is Falling Behind: A Dire Warning (Dr. Roman Yampolskiy)

Added: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]What is the mission that you're currently on? Cuz it's quite clear to me that you are on a bit of a mission and you've been on this mission for I think the best part of two decades at least.

[00:00:10]>> I'm hoping to make sure that super intelligence we are creating right now does not kill everyone.

[00:00:21]>> Give me some give me some context on that statement cuz it's quite a shocking statement.

[00:00:25]>> True. So in the last decade, we actually figured out how to make artificial intelligence better. Turns out if you add more compute, more data, it just kind of becomes smarter. And so now smartest people in the world, billions of dollars, all going to create the best possible super intelligence we can.

[00:00:48]Unfortunately, while we know how to make those systems much more capable, we don't know how to make them safe.

[00:00:55]how to make sure they don't do something we will regret and that's the state of the art right now. When we look at just prediction markets, how soon will we get to advanced AI? The timelines are very short, couple years, 2 3 years according to prediction markets, according to CEOs of top labs.

[00:01:18]And at the same time, we don't know how to make sure that those systems are aligned with our preferences.

[00:01:26]So we are creating this alien intelligence.

[00:01:30]If aliens were coming to Earth and you you had three years to prepare, you would be panicking right now. But most people don't don't even realize this is happening.