{"id":239407,"date":"2026-06-21T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/roman-yampolskiy-ai-cant-be-controlled-we-need-to-pause-now"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:03:05","slug":"roman-yampolskiy-ai-cant-be-controlled-we-need-to-pause-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/roman-yampolskiy-ai-cant-be-controlled-we-need-to-pause-now","title":{"rendered":"Roman Yampolskiy: AI Can\u2019t Be Controlled. We Need to Pause Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5zbtGD-4E1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Roman Yampolskiy spent two decades trying to prove superintelligence can be controlled. He couldn\u2019t \u2014 and now says the proof runs the other way: not difficult, mathematically impossible.<\/p>\n<p>If he\u2019s right, we\u2019re building the one machine we can never switch off, and the people building it are racing to do it faster.<\/p>\n<p>Roman is a professor of computer science at the University of Louisville and one of the earliest researchers in AI safety.<br \/> We cover: why you\u2019re the squirrel in the human-AI intelligence gap, what the halting problem really says about predicting a smarter mind, why he calls all current AI safety \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Yampolskiy spent two decades trying to prove superintelligence can be controlled. He couldn\u2019t \u2014 and now says the proof runs the other way: not difficult, mathematically impossible. If he\u2019s right, we\u2019re building the one machine we can never switch off, and the people building it are racing to do it faster. Roman is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}