16 May 2026 · 42 min
"You Can’t Even Imagine the Scale of the Catastrophe" — Roman Yampolskiy on Superintelligence
Most AI researchers think alignment is a hard problem. Roman Yampolskiy argues it's an impossible one. Yampolskiy is a computer scientist at the University of Louisville and one of the longest-standing voices in AI safety research. For over a decade he has argued that controlling a system more intelligent than ourselves isn't a challenge the field will eventually solve — it's a structural limit we can't get past. His position sits at the far end of AI safety discourse, and most of the field disagrees with him. In this conversation we get into why he holds it, what he thinks the rest of the…
