#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI

6490.839 - 6516.265 Roman Yampolsky

So when I started working on this, it was pure science fiction. There was no funding, no journals, no conferences. No one in academia would dare to touch anything with the word singularity in it. And I was pretty tenured at the time, so I was pretty dumb. Now, you see Turing Award winners publishing in Science about how far behind we are, according to them, in addressing this problem.