AI, Superintelligence & The Threat To Humanity | Roman Yampolskiy
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist and AI safety researcher whose work explores the existential risks of artificial intelligence and the limits of human control. In this episode, we dive deep into whether superintelligence can be contained, why AI may already be on an unstoppable trajectory, and what that means for humanity’s future. Roman explains the difference between narrow AI, AGI, and superintelligence, and why building systems smarter than us may be a form of mutually assured destruction. We cover the ethics of open-source models, whether AI could ever be conscious, and how Bitcoin fits into a world dominated by intelligent machines. In this episode: Why superintelligence may be impossible to control The existential risk of AI Whether consciousness can exist in machines How AI will replace all human labor Why AI might eventually use Bitcoin as its native money THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: IREN: https://www.iren.com/ RIVER: https://river.com/wbd ANCHORWATCH: https://www.anchorwatch.com/ BLOCKWARE: https://mining.blockwaresolutions.com... LEDN: https://learn.ledn.io/wbd BITKEY: https://bitkey.world/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST: FOUNTAIN: https://fountain.fm/show/gpascDml6iI0... SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/18Pixm6... APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... WEBSITE: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/ FOLLOW: Danny Knowles: https://x.com/_DannyKnowles or https://primal.net/danny Dr. Roman Yampolskiy: https://x.com/romanyam TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:31 - How Roman Yampolskiy Got Into AI Safety 00:03:46 - From Tool To Agent: The Paradigm Shift 00:06:09 - Why Controlling Superintelligence Is Impossible 00:07:36 - How Close Are We To AGI? 00:09:03 - The Singularity And What Comes After 00:11:20 - Why Tech Leaders Keep Building Anyway 00:17:00 - How AI Will Reshape Jobs And Creativity 00:19:21 - Can AI Already Pass The Turing Test? 00:24:20 - Why Open Source AI Is Dangerous 00:29:01 - Sam Altman, Worldcoin, And The Panopticon 00:33:32 - The Illusion Of Freedom Under AI 00:41:56 - Will AI Use Bitcoin As Its Money? 00:49:50 - Uploading Human Minds And Ethics 00:52:15 - Are We Living In A Simulation? What Bitcoin Did with Danny Knowles #Bitcoin #Finance #Money #Economics
