# Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy - Monitoring Update Accessed: 2026-07-15 ## Scope Twice-monthly maintenance check for the Managing Expectations AI section anchor: - Page section: `ai.html#roman-yampolskiy` - Prior source notes: - `research/ai/roman-yampolskiy-source-note-2026-05-18.md` - `research/ai/roman-yampolskiy-update-2026-07-01.md` - Editorial rule: treat Yampolskiy's position as a serious AI-safety/risk argument, not as settled consensus or prophecy. ## Sources checked ### Official / professional sources 1. Personal/professional website - URL: https://www.romanyampolskiy.com/ - Result: reachable. - Observed page metadata: `article:modified_time` / schema `dateModified` still shows `2026-05-19T08:05:27+00:00`. - No new post/article list was verified from the official website during this check. 2. University of Louisville faculty page - URL: https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/ - Result: reachable. - Visible public role remains: Roman V. Yampolskiy, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Speed School of Engineering; Director, Cybersecurity Laboratory; Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science. - No new July 2026 update marker was verified on the faculty page during this check. 3. Google Scholar profile - URL: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0_Rq68cAAAAJ - Result: reachable in this environment. - Visible top publication list still includes older/high-citation work plus the 2024 book `AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable`. - This check did not verify a new July 2026 paper from the visible Scholar page. 4. Official YouTube channel / RSS feed - Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RomanYampolskiy - Feed: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCPIq6Bb-1iLmqyksJjy4kLQ - Result: active. New official-feed items appeared after the 2026-07-01 monitoring note. ### Social / platform pages checked - X/Twitter: https://x.com/romanyam - reachable as a JavaScript shell; individual post extraction was not reliable from this unattended environment. - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanyam - blocked/rate-limited with HTTP 999 during this check. - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/romanyam/ - reachable as a platform shell; individual post extraction was not reliable from this unattended environment. - Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DrRomanYampolskiy/ - reachable as a platform shell; individual post extraction was not reliable from this unattended environment. ### Search / discovery checks - DuckDuckGo Lite searches were attempted for recent 2026 appearances and articles. Results were inconsistent, but did surface secondary/appearance leads. - Secondary lead checked: The AI Insider article, `AI Safety Expert Roman Yampolskiy Believes AI Has a 99.9% Chance of Wiping Out Humanity`, published 2026-07-06 by James Dargan. - URL: https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/07/06/ai-safety-expert-roman-yampolskiy-believes-ai-has-a-99-9-chance-of-wiping-out-humanity/ - Source status: secondary article/summary, not an official Yampolskiy publication. - Podcast/appearance lead checked: iHeart/VladTV episode page, `AI Safety Expert Roman Yampolskiy: AI Has a 99.9% Chance of Wiping Out Humanity`. - URL: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-vladtv-164609580/episode/ai-safety-expert-roman-yampolskiy-ai-337610575/ - Source status: public podcast page/appearance record. The page exposed title, description and audio metadata; a clear publication date was not verified from the page HTML during this check. - A Podscan result for a Dennis Michael Lynch Show episode returned 404 when opened, so it is not treated as verified. ## New or newly logged public materials since 2026-07-01 ### Verified from the official YouTube RSS feed 1. `AI: Shooting in the Dark` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M2uwUzqtJqE - Published: 2026-07-04T19:11:40+00:00 - Source status: official YouTube feed. - Relevance: short-form AI-risk framing from the official channel/Roman Forum feed. 2. `Nate Soares on P(Doom), Alien Superintelligence, Human Enhancement, and the Future of AI` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMMqQm22LS0 - Published: 2026-07-01T15:55:27+00:00 - Source status: official YouTube feed / Roman Forum. - Feed description summary: Yampolskiy speaks with Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author of `If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies`, about AI alignment, superintelligence, p(doom), value alignment, human enhancement and related risk arguments. - Relevance: substantive current Roman Forum interview material after the prior monitoring note. ### Secondary / appearance leads 1. The AI Insider article on Yampolskiy's severe extinction-risk framing - URL: https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/07/06/ai-safety-expert-roman-yampolskiy-believes-ai-has-a-99-9-chance-of-wiping-out-humanity/ - Published: 2026-07-06 according to visible/schema page metadata. - Source status: secondary article. Useful as a sign that his severe risk argument is still circulating, but not treated as a primary source. 2. VladTV/iHeart appearance page - URL: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-vladtv-164609580/episode/ai-safety-expert-roman-yampolskiy-ai-337610575/ - Source status: public podcast/episode page. Title and description verified; date not verified from the extracted page. - Relevance: appearance/distribution lead, not a new paper or official statement. ## Editorial update made Meaningful new material was found: the official YouTube/Roman Forum feed added a July 1 long-form interview with Nate Soares and a July 4 short, both after the prior monitoring note. The AI page should keep the update concise and source-bounded. Public framing used: > Latest check, July 15, 2026: the official YouTube / Roman Forum feed added a July 1 interview with Nate Soares on p(doom), alien superintelligence, human enhancement and AI alignment, plus a July 4 short, `AI: Shooting in the Dark`. Treat these as current public risk arguments and interview/forum materials - not proof that the most severe timelines are settled. ## Caution / verification labels - `Verified`: official website reachable; University page reachable; Google Scholar reachable; official YouTube RSS feed entries for the two July items. - `Platform-limited`: X, Instagram and Facebook pages were reachable but not reliably extractable for individual posts in the unattended cron environment. - `Blocked/rate-limited`: LinkedIn returned HTTP 999. - `Secondary`: The AI Insider article is a secondary summary/commentary source, not a primary Yampolskiy publication. - `Appearance lead`: iHeart/VladTV page verifies a public episode page and description but not a publication date from extracted HTML. - `Broken lead`: Podscan/Dennis Michael Lynch result returned 404 and was not used as verified evidence.