Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast again to discuss whether AI is like a Shoggoth, whether scaling laws will hold for more agent-like AIs, evidence that AI is uncontrollable, and whether designing human-like AI would be safer than the current development path. You can read more about Roman's work at http://cecs.louisville.edu/ry/

Timestamps:

00:00 Is AI like a Shoggoth?

09:50 Scaling laws

16:41 Are humans more general than AIs?

21:54 Are AI models explainable?

27:49 Using AI to explain AI

32:36 Evidence for AI being uncontrollable

40:29 AI verifiability

46:08 Will AI be aligned by default?

54:29 Creating human-like AI

1:03:41 Robotics and safety

1:09:01 Obstacles to AI in the economy

1:18:00 AI innovation with current models

1:23:55 AI accidents in the past and future