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Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist & associate professor known for research on AI safety, cybersecurity, digital forensics, and the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. He has written extensively for both academic and public audiences, including books such as Artificial Superintelligence and AI Safety and Security.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Doomsday AI scenario

05:50 - AI super intelligence will kill us

11:59 - Superintelligence is dangerously close

16:36 - Why quantum computers aren't a threat

18:36 - AI may already be conscious

29:07 - AI is technology of mutually assured destruction

38:30 - We're in a simulation (and we can hack it)

47:21 - AI will create simulated realities

51:04 - Arguments against simulation theory

52:45 - What's outside the simulation

59:47 - The AI meaning crisis

01:02:57 - Government slowing down AI

01:07:36 - The current leading nation of AI

01:12:13 - Merging humans with AI

01:19:27 - Keeping AI obedient

01:23:02 - How transhumanists plan to live forever

01:32:34 - How AI will change human evolution

01:37:34 - It is now impossible to identify AI-generated media

01:44:34 - Palantir + DOGE integration

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