AI Expert on Robot Girlfriends, If Humanity Is Cooked, & Sam Altman's God Fetish | Roman Yampolskiy from Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh

AI Expert on Robot Girlfriends, If Humanity Is Cooked, & Sam Altman's God Fetish | Roman Yampolskiy

1 hour 43 minutes Posted Oct 10, 2025 at 3:03 pm.

Is the UN taking AI safety seriously?

Roman Yampolskiy explains the global AI arms race

What happens when AI surpasses human intelligence

The terrifying AI timeline

Tools to agents: AGI vs. Super Intelligence

Can AI make good art or tell a funny joke?

Why we still crave human creativity

Robots & Humanoids

The coming of mass unemployment

Will productivity save us or will AI just replace everyone?

Best vs. worst case

Why unplugging AI won’t work

Super intelligence & why alignment is impossible

Global treaties, nukes, and the illusion of control

Could anyone survive by going off-grid?

Consciousness, empathy, and why AI be benevolent

Living with inevitability: “Enjoy your life anyway.”

Neuralink, simulation theory & merging with machines

Movies that get AI right

Are we already in a simulation?

How Roman finds happiness in life

Is any job is safe?

Global AI arms race

Sam Altman's God Complex

The probability of AI apocalypse

Final thoughts & saying "Thank You" to AI

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YERRR – the boys go full Skynet. AI expert Roman Yampolskiy explains why the UN’s ignoring AI safety, how Sam Altman’s “God complex” might get us all killed, whether we can actually unplug AI, and what happens when AI takes our jobs.

All that and more on this special bonus episode of FLAGRANT. INDULGE.

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