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Comment by Roman V. Yampolskiy

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AI safety researcher, Louisville professor
If we create general superintelligences, I don’t see a good outcome long-term for humanity. So there is X-risk, existential risk, everyone’s dead.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports the statement: it says that creating general superintelligences would create "X-risk, existential risk" and even "everyone’s dead," which directly expresses that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly says that with "general superintelligences" there is "X-risk, existential risk, everyone’s dead," which supports the claim that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified Verified: the Lex Fridman transcript page for podcast #431 attributes this exact passage to Roman Yampolskiy at 00:00:00, and the page/search metadata shows the transcript was posted in June 2024, so the wording, attribution, source, and year all match. ([lexfridman.com](https://lexfridman.com/roman-yampolskiy-transcript/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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