Ethics, Control, and Survival: Navigating the Risks of Superintelligent AI | Impact Theory w/ Tom Bilyeu X Dr. Roman Yampolskiy Pt. 2

Welcome back to part two of my conversation with doctor Roman Yampolsky. So why do you think that Elon, who was banging the drum harder than anybody, lobbying congress, desperately trying to get them to slow down, suddenly hit a point where he was like, well, I guess I'll just build it faster than anybody else. He likened AI to a demon summoning circle and laughed at everybody who thought, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll I'll summon a demon, and then I'll be able to control it. All is gonna be well. Like, he sees the problem clearly. But after years of trying to slow this down, he finally completely abandoned that and went to, I'll just build it faster than anybody else. What happened there, and why do you think you can reverse it? So I think he realized he's not succeeding at his initial approach of convincing him not to do it. And so the second step in that plan would be to become the leader in a field and convince them from position of leadership and control of the more advanced technology. If the leader says, you know, we're gonna slow down and it's fine for you to slow down, it's easier to negotiate that deal with, let's say, top seven companies than if you are not even part of a game. You have no AI. You are a nobody in that space. So all of them as a group benefit more if they agree to slow down or stop than if they just arms race and the first one to get there gets everyone destroyed. He says words along those lines or did for a while. I think he even signed one of the letters about we should pump the brakes. But none of his actions indicate that that's actually what he plans to do, from just trying to take advantage of every company that he's building from the amount of data that Tesla cars capture visually, to all the decisions that drivers are currently making, to all of the decisions that the AI will make, to now he's talking about using the cars as a distributed fleet so that when they're idle, that they're actually running inference models. And so using it as a gigantic AI brain to well, maybe that won't work, so I'm gonna do Neuralink, and I'm gonna jack into, the AI myself, and I'm gonna make myself smarter. And, hey, if all of that fails, don't worry. I'm gonna get us to Mars. So if we destroy planet Earth or the AI takes over, like, we're gonna be over there. Like, this is a guy that's really covering his bases. He is not somebody who's acting like he expects us to slow down. To me, he is acting like somebody who crossed that bridge a long time ago, and it's just like, yep. That's not gonna work. People are not gonna be convinced, and so we've gotta build a whole bunch of …