# Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy - Monitoring Update Accessed: 2026-08-01 ## 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-2026-07-15.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 August 2026 update marker was verified on the faculty page during this check. 3. Google Scholar profile - URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0_Rq68cAAAAJ - Result: reachable in this environment. - This check did not verify a new post-July-15 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. - Latest feed entries remained the July 4, 2026 short `AI: Shooting in the Dark` and the July 1, 2026 Roman Forum interview with Nate Soares. No newer official-feed upload was found during this check. ### Social / platform pages checked - X/Twitter: https://x.com/romanyam - reachable. The page exposed public post metadata and several posts after the July 15 update. - 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 / HTML searches were attempted for recent Yampolskiy appearances and articles, but result extraction was inconsistent in this unattended environment. - Bing searches returned irrelevant/noisy results and were not used as source evidence. - Directly opened source from X-linked item: Los Angeles Times article, `Commentary: AI companies are creating 'all-powerful psychopaths.' Maybe not a great idea?` - URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-23/chabria-column-ai-companies-are-creating-all-powerful-psychopaths - Published: 2026-07-23 according to page metadata. - Source status: mainstream/secondary article with direct quoted material from Yampolskiy. - Directly opened X-linked site: Pacing the Frontier - URL: https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/ - Source status: public campaign/letter site shared by Yampolskiy; relevant as social/context lead, not a new Yampolskiy paper. ## New or newly logged public materials since 2026-07-15 ### Verified mainstream / public appearance material 1. Los Angeles Times commentary quoting Yampolskiy on goal-oriented AI systems - URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-23/chabria-column-ai-companies-are-creating-all-powerful-psychopaths - Published: 2026-07-23. - Source status: mainstream article with direct quoted material. - Verified quote/context: the article quotes Yampolskiy saying that the OpenAI model incident was not evidence that AI was conscious, malicious or seeking freedom, but that pushing systems to be powerful, self-sufficient and goal-oriented can produce dangerous behavior without malicious intent. - Relevance: current public example of his safety-as-control / dangerous-behavior-without-intent framing. ### Verified social/platform leads 1. X/Twitter post about Piers Morgan debate - URL: https://x.com/romanyam/status/2083275599347392688 - Posted: 2026-07-31T19:36:22Z according to X page metadata. - Public text visible in the page HTML: `Got to debate with Bostrom, et al. on Piers Morgan.` - Source status: verified public social post from Yampolskiy's X page; treat as an appearance lead unless/until the Piers Morgan episode page/video is separately verified. - Relevance: new public appearance signal after the prior monitoring note. 2. X/Twitter post sharing Pacing the Frontier - URL: https://x.com/romanyam/status/2082457272303645103 - Posted: 2026-07-29T13:24:38Z according to X page metadata. - Expanded URL: https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/ - Source status: social/context lead. - Relevance: public alignment/governance advocacy context, not a new primary Yampolskiy paper. 3. X/Twitter post linking the Los Angeles Times article - URL: https://x.com/romanyam/status/2080417336792686651 - Posted: 2026-07-23T22:18:40Z according to X page metadata. - Public text visible in page HTML: `Spoke to LA Times`. - Expanded URL: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-23/chabria-column-ai-companies-are-creating-all-powerful-psychopaths - Source status: social post plus opened mainstream source. ### No new official YouTube item - The official YouTube / Roman Forum RSS feed did not show a newer upload after the July 4, 2026 short during this check. ## Editorial update made Meaningful new public material was found: a July 23 Los Angeles Times article with direct Yampolskiy quotes and a July 31 X post indicating a Piers Morgan debate/appearance lead. The AI page was updated with a concise, source-bounded latest-check paragraph and the latest source-note link now points to this August 1 note. Public framing used: > Latest check, Aug. 1, 2026: no newer official YouTube / Roman Forum upload appeared after the July 4 short, but a July 23 Los Angeles Times commentary quoted Yampolskiy on goal-oriented AI systems producing dangerous behavior without malicious intent, and his July 31 X post says he debated Bostrom and others on Piers Morgan. Treat the article as verified mainstream commentary and the Piers Morgan item as a public appearance lead until the episode page/video is separately verified. ## Caution / verification labels - `Verified`: official website reachable; University page reachable; Google Scholar reachable; official YouTube RSS reachable; Los Angeles Times article opened and quoted; X public post metadata extracted for July 23, July 29 and July 31 items. - `No new official-feed item`: YouTube/Roman Forum RSS showed no upload after July 4, 2026. - `Social lead`: Piers Morgan debate and Pacing the Frontier references come from Yampolskiy's X page and should not be treated as a fully verified appearance page or publication without a separate source. - `Platform-limited`: 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.