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AI Expert’s Chilling Warning About Super-intelligence - 99.9999% Chance Human Extinction

August 26, 2026·1h 46m·6-min readinterviewtechnology
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Roman Yampolskiy argues that uncontrolled development of general superintelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, with a near-certainty of catastrophic outcomes if current trajectories continue, and calls for an immediate international ban on such systems.


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Roman Yampolskiy

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Roman YampolskiyPatrick Bet-DavidSam AltmanElon MuskNick Bostrom

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Superintelligenceby Nick BostromAI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollableby Roman Yampolskiy

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Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityEntrepreneurshipEthicsFuture Of WorkLarge Language ModelsMachine Learning

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