Roman Yampolskiy

thumb|Roman Yampolskiy Roman V. Yampolskiy (Russian: Роман Владимирович Ямпольский; born 13 August 1979) is a computer scientist at the University of Louisville, mostly known for his work on AI safety and cybersecurity. He is the founder and, as of 2012, director of Cyber Security Lab, in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering of the University of Louisville. Quotes I’m hoping to make sure that superintelligence we are creating right now does not kill everyone. 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. Unfortunately, while we know how to make those systems much more capable, we don’t know how to make them safe, 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 of years, two, three years, according to prediction markets, according to CEOs of Top Labs. And at the same time, we don’t know how to make sure that those systems are aligned with our preferences. So we are creating this alien intelligence. If aliens were coming to Earth and you had three years to prepare, you would be panicking right now. But most people don’t even realize this is happening. Transcript: AI Safety Expert Dr. Roman Yampolskiy on The Diary Of A CEO Podcast External links Category:Computer scientists from Latvia Category:Academics from Latvia Category:1979 births Category:Living people