Roman Yampolskiy has spent two decades trying to prove that superintelligent AI can be controlled. He couldn’t. I invited him on to make his case. Subscribe if you want science with evidence, not speculation.Roman is a professor of computer science at the University of Louisville and one of the earliest researchers in AI safety. His book AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable started as an attempt to solve the alignment problem. After decades of work, it became a proof that the problem cannot be solved. Not difficult. Mathematically impossible.I push back hard. We go after the Einstein test: can a large language model trained only on pre-1911 physics reproduce what Einstein did with the same data? We ran that experiment. It failed. Roman and I disagree about what that means. We also get into the halting problem and what it actually tells us about predicting smarter-than-human behavior, whether value alignment is a real problem or a well-funded category error, the case for a government moratorium on frontier model development, and why Roman thinks giving an AI agent access to your computer is the dumbest thing a smart person can do.What you’ll hear:Whether AI control is mathematically impossible or just unsolvedWhy Roman thinks all current AI safety work is security theaterWhat the halting problem actually means for superintelligenceThe alignment problem: real issue or well-funded category errorWhy Roman wants a moratorium on frontier model developmentWhat to tell your kids about careers in a world where Roman might be rightIf you listen to other people, the best you can become is average.CHAPTERSSubstack: https://briankeating.substack.comGet the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/ytHave a .edu email and live in the USA? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/eduSubscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1Support Into the Impossible on Patreon, get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeatingJoin this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/joinFeatured Guest:Roman Yampolskiy on Twitter/X: https://x.com/romanyam?lang=enAI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable: https://www.romanyampolskiy.com/books/My books:Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpAThink Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFuFocus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9UGalileo’s Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9UnTwitter/X: https://x.com/BrianKeatingSubstack: https://briankeating.substack.comBlog: https://briankeating.com/blogAudio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast#intotheimpossible #briankeating #AIrisk #artificialintelligence #aisafety #podcast #superintelligence #RomanYampolskiyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices