Comment by Roman V. Yampolskiy

AI safety researcher, Louisville professor
We haven’t lost until we have lost. We still have a great chance to do it right and we can have a great future. We can use narrow AI tools to cure aging, an important problem and I think we are close on that front. Free labor, physical and cognitive, will give us a lot of economic wealth to do better in many areas of society which we are struggling with today. People should try to understand the unpredictable consequences and existential risks of bringing AGI or superintelligent AI into the real world. Eight billion people are part of this experiment they never consented to – not just that they have not consented, they cannot give meaningful consent because nobody understands what they are consenting to. It’s not explainable, it’s not predictable, so by definition, it’s an unethical experiment on all of us. So, we should put some pressure on people who are irresponsibly moving too quickly on AI capabilities development to slow down, to stop, to look in the other direction, to allow us to only develop AI systems we will not regret creating.
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AI Verified The quote directly discusses developing and bringing AGI/superintelligent AI into the world, calling it risky and urging developers to slow down or stop. That is a clear position on whether to build artificial general intelligence as a whole. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The quote calls "bringing AGI or superintelligent AI into the real world" an "unethical experiment" with "existential risks" and says people should "slow down, to stop" AI capabilities development. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic. In the UofL News Q&A published July 15, 2024, the answer attributed to Roman Yampolskiy under “What else should people know about the issue of uncontrollable artificial intelligence?” contains these same three paragraphs verbatim at lines 237–239 of the source page. ([news.louisville.edu](https://news.louisville.edu/news/qa-uofl-ai-safety-expert-says-artificial-superintelligence-could-harm-humanity)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Roman V. Yampolskiy (Louisville professor, AI safety researcher) from UofL News Q&A "AI safety expert says artificial superintelligence could harm humanity" (July 2024 - confirmed by Lane Report mirror dated July 2024). WebFetch on news.louisville.edu source URL returned HTTP 403. Web search confirms verbatim phrases: "Eight billion people are part of this experiment they never consented to," and "It's not explainable, it's not predictable, so by definition, it's an unethical experiment on all of us." Year was null; updated to 2024. Vote "against" "Build artificial general intelligence" perfectly aligns with Yampolskiy's well-documented AI safety / anti-AGI stance. Marking ai_unverifiable due to source URL blocking. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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