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2 Jun 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

“There are people trying to accelerate those timelines, because they feel we’re not getting there quick enough.”

— Roman Yampolskiy

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Roman Yampolskiy
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2 Jun 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Okay, we’ll talk about possible solutions and what not playing it means, but what are the possible timelines here to you? What are we talking about? We’re talking about a set of years, decades, centuries, what do you think? I don’t know for sure. The prediction markets right now are saying 2026 for AGI. I heard the same thing from CEO of Anthropic DeepMind. So maybe we’re two years away, which seems very soon given we don’t have a working safety mechanism in place or even a prototype for one. There are people trying to accelerate those timelines, because they feel we’re not getting there quick enough. Well, what do you think they mean when they say AGI?…

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