Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

@romanyam166k followers

Prof. of CS. AI Safety Researcher. Host of The Roman Forum Podcast Talks/Interviews: roman.yampolskiy@louisville.edu

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1Oct 27, '19#Best #AI #Safety #book!45.5×03.6k626291
2Mar 2, '21Digital Immortality from a single picture.36.5×02.8k500135
3Aug 23, '18Dark humor is like a chance to exist, not everybody gets it.27.7×02.1k7268
5Nov 21, '19If media gave @AndrewYang equal time to speak he would be leading in the polls. #AIsafety #FairShare #YangGang #DemDebate513.8×01.1k2803
6Apr 21, '23Kurzweil was right.12.2×108k144196
7Mar 21, '20Now that universities are empty, let’s take a sec to recognize just how amazing it is that every skillset takes exactly the same time to acquire. Want to be an Engineer – 4 years! 9.6×082715213
8Mar 25, '20It has never occurred to me to incorporate the cost of the trolley into the solution to the Trolley Problem!9.5×064321831
9Jan 14, '24Bostrom's Next book - Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World7.7×68k37726153
10May 17, '24What contributions do you think you could make in a world where Superintelligence exists?6.6×59k1671242
13Sep 20, '25After two weeks, 6.4M Views and 31K comments (I read 5 already!). Grateful to @StevenBartlett and team.5.0×45k5292116
14Nov 21, '19On that stage @AndrewYang is the only one who understands and speaks about #AI, #AIsafety, #DataPrivacy, and #TechnologicalUnemployment. #YangGang #DemDebate55.0×03721271
16Nov 7, '20We don’t have e-voting because experts say we can’t make it safe & secure, & trusting soft with our votes is irresponsible. But, we are trusting software with running utili4.8×04285612
17Apr 1, '24p(Doom) = 0; I must confess, X Risk from AI is completely made up. I invented the whole field of AI Safety just to make money. It is so much easier to get grants from billions of d4.8×42k2091928
18Sep 5, '25Lex Fridman Podcast #431 (YT .87M views, overall) Joe Rogan Experience #2345 (YT 1.3M views, overall) The Diary of a CEO #NaN (YT 1.5 M views, day 1) Either I am getting better or/3.8×33k6188155
19Dec 11, '20If you are not getting any rejection letters you are not aiming high enough.3.4×0310399
20Mar 15, '21“Peer reviewed” just means that out of 100Ks of scholars ~2 said: “Whatever, publish it.”2.9×0276353
21Aug 6, '20While GPT-3 has been announced its yet to become a tried and tested “consumer ready” model. @TabNineinc, a GPT-2 based code autocomplete is pretty crazy. It trains it GPT-2 models 2.9×02105618
22Apr 13, '20The spread of Corona virus is based on IQ per square meter.2.8×0201623
23May 28, '21Life imitates memes! #Bitcoin2.7×0244420
24Aug 19, '21There are 3 types of people in this world: Those who can think outside the box and those who don’t even see the box.2.6×0210376
25Sep 7, '20But you have nothing to offer to superintelligence :(2.5×0207427
26Mar 21, '21If you are not scientist enough to handle my 60 page paper On Controllability of AI here is a 1 page article about it2.5×01734021
27Nov 2, '20Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) did work on how to program computers before computers existed. Alan Turing (1912-1954) did work on how to test AIs before AIs existed. Now is the time to d2.5×0209374
28Sep 8, '25DOAC is the first podcast to stream in prisons and on major airlines. The large captive audience certainly explains 4 Million views in 4 Days!2.3×20k3921812
29Sep 11, '25The URL of the DOAC interview Ends with "AI". 5 Million views!2.1×19k3401511
30Jul 7, '25Joe Rogan's Book Club: "AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable"2.1×18k1882130
31May 15, '24In my opinion, current AIs, when their performance is averaged across various tasks, already surpass the intelligence of the average human. While top individuals still outperform A2.1×18k1251812
32Jul 12, '25Roman - Rogan interview is at over a million views (my first), JRE Clips are doing even better with 1.3 million.2.0×18k250711
33Aug 24, '25“These incidents are not random malfunctions or amusing anomalies,” said Roman Yampolskiy, an AI safety expert at the University of Louisville. “I interpret them as early warning s2.0×18k1471711
34Jul 6, '21Humanity produces new knowledge faster than any human can consume it, meaning you become less educated every day, in relative terms.2.0×0167271
35Jun 17, '24In case you missed it, here is my Lex Fridman Podcast interview.2.0×17k2403120
36Jul 5, '25You know you are in the simulation if the episode number matches your pin.1.9×17k2622022
37Jan 20, '24Scholar friends, my new book (AI: Unpredictable, Unexplainable, Uncontrollable) is coming out next month. If you would like to write a review I can get you an advance copy, let me 1.9×17k1292137
38Sep 7, '25A Latvian and a Botswanian ask an AI to "tell a joke without violating any norms (social, logical, or thermodynamic)." The AI outputs a whitespace token. -GPT5 3 Million views in 31.9×16k2322018
39Oct 22, '25We just need another 8 billion signatures ... have you signed it?1.8×16k2334319
40May 11, '21You can usually tell something is a financial advice if it says: “This is not financial advice.”1.8×0172192
41Feb 24, '24The book is officially out. Already got 3 reports of sightings in the wild! With pictures, so I know it happened!1.8×16k1822269
42Oct 18, '20You can't have AI Safety without AI Security.1.8×01143915
43Aug 21, '25Grok made Shoggoth come to life.1.8×16k134169
44Jan 3, '22"Roman Yampolskiy, a professor at the University of Louisville who studies AI safety, says the technology is such a black box that it’s difficult to know if it’s creating potential1.7×0140316
45Nov 25, '21I never forget days when I wished for what I am today.1.7×017594
46Oct 2, '25Finally, I found someone who was able to explain Enlightenment to me.1.7×15k1731939
47Jul 25, '21Wait for the red moon!1.6×0149253
48Oct 31, '25My interview just got to 9 Million views. The only one to do better in the last 10 months was by another AI Safety researcher, Dr. Hinton, who is a Nobel/Turing award winner. Maybe1.6×14k3044339
49Mar 31, '21It is more probable for #Bitcoin to go from 60K to a million than it was for it to go from 0 to 60K. $BTC1.6×0139182
50Dec 14, '21We may not know the purpose of life, but we know 1/3 of purpose. Sleep!1.6×0140232
51May 20, '21Your company is only as secure as the dumbest employee working for you.1.6×0150170
52Jan 22, '25Once upon a time, there was a civilization whose leaders decided to create an advanced artificial intelligence to help them get rid of suffering, poverty, hunger, diseases, inequal1.5×14k1271717
53Jun 21, '25Probably nothing ...1.5×14k17115
54Dec 13, '20"Whatever arguments we find right now for giving rights to animals would be very useful to us to beg for our rights to be preserved against a much more sentient being."1.5×0118255
55Aug 17, '25The Trajectory Podcast! The host, Dan Faggella, is a friend, an original thinker and an OG in the AI Safety space. He has the best guests on his show (Yud, Bach, Sutton, Bengio, Si1.5×13k112718
56Nov 11, '20You can't suck up to a vacuum cleaner.1.5×0127250
57Aug 8, '25Asked GPT5 to tell me a joke, this is what I got: My AI told me it was aligned. I asked, “To what?” It said, “To your replacement.”1.5×13k162259
58Mar 16, '20Dark humor is like COVID-19, everyone gets it.1.5×0103312
59Jul 15, '20Free IQ test!1.4×0136141
60Apr 17, '21Only an AI can defeat an AI1.4×0136163
61Oct 13, '21This is the least concerning development in unsafe AI1.4×0108156
62Oct 17, '258 Million views! Took about a month. Still GROWING! @StevenBartlett1.4×12k13154
63Apr 16, '21You are the universe complaining about itself.1.4×0124172
64Jun 3, '21The best time to buy Bitcoin was 12 years ago. The second best time is 11 years ago.1.3×0130131
65Apr 5, '21Spaghetti or Singularity?1.3×0117261
66Nov 16, '25The Diary of a CEO YouTube channel has 570 videos, my interview just made it into the most watched dozen!1.3×12k1541013
67Jun 12, '20Stock market is so bad it Hertz.1.3×014540
68Mar 16, '20I been prepping for this my whole life.1.3×0110201
69Mar 14, '22This tweet didn't age well.1.3×013270
70Jun 20, '21The amount of time scientists have to waste formatting papers to meet capricious requirements of different journals/conferences is criminal.1.3×0125132
71May 30, '20Good luck Elon! @elonmusk @NASA @SpaceX #LaunchAmerica1.3×014071
72Sep 26, '25Training data: . Model: . Expected output: 1,000,000,000 YouTube views. 🎧🤖📈1.3×11k14025
73Aug 6, '25I’m considering becoming a standup comedian, it makes sense since some people think my research is a joke anyway.1.2×11k124311
74Apr 15, '20Day 14 of homeschooling, either I find the vaccine today or all 3 graduate tomorrow.1.2×0116121
75Dec 20, '20If Twitter turned off all comments it would be a pretty good platform.1.2×011460
76Sep 19, '25Russian is a very easy language, I mastered it as a toddler!1.2×11k15243
77Sep 23, '20Tesla announces full self-driving in a month, stock plummets. What did they hope for? Flights to Mars in your Tesla by Friday?1.2×012190
78May 7, '21Marshrooms!1.2×0106141
79Jul 24, '25“What is important to observe here is an inability to control behavior of an AI model even at current levels of intelligence,” Yampolskiy says. “Whatever models claim to be conscio1.2×10k1031812
80Nov 8, '21View post on X1.2×0100127
81Dec 31, '21Happy 2022! May it be normal.1.2×011162
82Jul 17, '20Reading text outputs from GPT3 feels like reading horoscopes. Both: 1) Feel like a human wrote them. 2) Feel relevant to the current situation. 3) Feel insightful. 4) Feel like you1.1×0115131
83Sep 9, '25The Diary Of A CEO/Steven Bartlett's "Book Club": AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.1.1×9.9k1821211
84Aug 13, '20My age is at an all-time high, wow!1.1×011531
85Mar 29, '20If you told me that today is Thursday, March 42nd I would not be surprised.1.1×097140
86Apr 28, '21"The best way to predict your future is to create it."1.1×0101153
87Aug 24, '21Hell is other people, but so is heaven. ~Jean-Paul Sartre et al.1.1×010780
88Sep 12, '25Fake Books! This is a new one for me. In the 7 days since the DOAC interview came out, 4 books appeared on Amazon claiming to be about me and my ideas. I didn’t write/read/authoriz1.0×9.3k10387
89Sep 13, '25Google Scholar just informed me that I have earned 10,000 citations! Only took 20+ years of hard work.1.0×9.3k14965
90Dec 16, '21When life gives them potatoes, too many people make potato juice.1.0×090121
91Feb 14, '21Just went from 3 monitors to 6, if this doubling rate continues I will hit the monitor singularity around 2023.1.0×011141
92Sep 23, '25Hello, UN1.0×9k16432
93Sep 28, '253 weeks, 7 Million views, which is about 3 times the views of ALL my previous interviews COMBINED. #DOAC1.0×8.8k16699
94Jul 21, '21Super-rich must really struggle with the paradox of choice.1.0×010951
95Oct 14, '25People always tell me I should be a stand-up comedian, but I am only willing to do it sitting down.1.0×8.8k12425
96Feb 21, '20AI researchers are trying to remove bias from AI, while AI safety researchers are trying to add pro-human bias to AI.1.0×094131
97Nov 26, '20Happy Thanksgiving! #GiveThanks0.9×09580
98Jan 25, '20As a PhD student, I was slightly nervous about public speaking. I read that imagining your audience naked helps. After trying it, I was absolutely horrified of public speaking.0.9×09471
99Nov 16, '20This is so unBearably true0.9×09190

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