18:41No, AI Isn’t Conscious; It’s Actually Much Worse | AI Scientist
Roman Yampolskiy, the University of Louisville professor who coined the term AI safety and then spent fifteen years arguing the thing he set out to build cannot be built, sits with host Will Cannon. His claim is that indefinitely controlling a general superintelligence is not underfunded, it is impossible in the way a perpetual motion machine is impossible, and that the danger needs no malice or consciousness at all. He walks through what an unaligned system would actually do first (be helpful, cure your cancer, ask for more compute), why software plus an internet connection plus money is enough without robots, which jobs go first and which survive, and why your ChatGPT subscription is a rounding error against the capital betting on full labor automation. Also the coinage that names the harder half of the post labor problem: unconditional basic meaning.