AI Expert’s Chilling Warning About Super-intelligence - 99.9999% Chance Human Extinction
AI safety researcher Roman Yampolski argues that developing general superintelligence poses an existential risk to humanity with a 99.999% probability of destruction, primarily because such systems will be uncontrollablesummaryHe advocates for an immediate global ban on superintelligence development, citing the prisoner's dilemma where individual actors (like tech billionaires or nations) are incentivized to race ahead despite collective risk,summaryThe core threat is not AI malice or emotion, but indifference; superintelligence will view humans as irrelevant obstacles or resources, similar to how humans view ants when building a house.takeaway














