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Why AI Risk Could Arrive Fast | Roman Yampolskiy

2026-06-02 Education
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*How fast could AI move from useful tool to dominant intelligence?* In this rapid-fire exchange, Roman Yampolskiy predicts AGI and ASI by 2028, widespread job redundancy, severe AI risks, and a long-term future in which humanity may no longer be central. 0:31 AGI and ASI Arrive by 2028 1:24 AI Makes Current Jobs Redundant 3:05 AI Harm, Casualties, and Extinction Risk 4:16 Unsupervised AI Authority 5:22 What an AI-Dominant Future Really Means *Roman V. Yampolskiy* is a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Louisville's Speed School of Engineering, where he founded and directs the Cyber Security Lab. Widely credited with coining the term "AI safety" in 2011, he is the author of _AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable._ *More from Roman V. Yampolskiy on Closer To Truth:* * Closer To Truth: The Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pLLkP0kHQKL9nZh35UkgkR_ * Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Advanced Technology - Closer To Truth Core Topic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pItdxcrvJ2o9zfHjFNdyoeG * Closer To Truth contributor page: https://closertotruth.com/contributor/roman-yampolskiy/ *Subscribe to Closer To Truth:* https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV *Join the Community:* * Membership (5,000+ videos): https://closertotruth.com/register/ * Audio Podcast: https://closertotruth.podbean.com * Support the Show: https://closertotruth.com/donate/ * Official Merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/closertotruth/ *Follow Us:* * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CloserToTruthTV/ * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/closertotruth/ * X: https://x.com/CloserToTruth Closer To Truth, created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, presents the world's greatest thinkers exploring humanity's deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence and sentience. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers. #CloserToTruth #Consciousness #RomanYampolskiy #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI

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@CloserToTruthTV 2026-05-27

Roman Yampolskiy gives unusually compressed and stark predictions about AGI, ASI, job loss, AI authority, consciousness, simulation, and a future that may become entirely nonhuman. Do these predictions clarify the scale of AI risk — or do rapid numerical forecasts make the future seem more certain than it really is?

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@aldrinspeck2724 2026-06-04

1873 prediction: "high speed trains by 1880!". 1965 prediction: "Nuclear Fusion power plants by 1985!"...........Flying cars by the year 2000, Moon bases, Mars trip.....

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@edwardtutman196 2026-06-02

AGI in 2028 and Super AGI in 2036?! They are not even expecting driverless cars until 2040?

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@Bill..N 2026-06-02

Cmon.. I haven't heard all of this YET, but I ALREADY feel compelled to comment while listening..This gentleman (in my humble opinion) is illustrative of the human fear of the dark, OR the unknown..Totally off base here..

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@jamesmorgan1063 2026-06-03

The road to AGI and ASI hell is paved with good intentions that are driven by greed and domination.

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@browngreen933 2026-06-02

Was there a question about AI being used to create a global Super Surveillance Big Brother State? If so I missed it.

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@philosophicalmixedmedia 2026-06-03

Its going to take quantum level AI to acquire gustatory states of awareness that simulate a human consciousness which arguably is the feedback for visceral sense of presence as platitudes of consciousness, as well as olfactory, and tactile or haptic feedback, but for visual and auditory AI has a sort of disembodied sense of agency based absorption of cultural tropes.

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@lemur7320 2026-06-02

There is a huge clan of fear mongers and they have a specific goal in it

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@stoictraveler1 2026-06-02

Damn we better pull the plug on that AI thing huh.

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@paulbattista7736 2026-06-02

Very good

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