# Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy - Monitoring Update Accessed: 2026-09-15 ## 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-2026-09-01.md` - Editorial rule: treat Yampolskiy's position as a serious AI-safety/risk argument, not as settled consensus, prophecy, or a measured probability. ## Sources checked ### Official / professional sources 1. Personal/professional website - URL: https://www.romanyampolskiy.com/ - Result: reachable. - Visible positioning remained focused on AI safety, cybersecurity, digital forensics, public speaking, and books. - No new dated website/news update was verified from the homepage during this check. 2. University of Louisville faculty page - URL: https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/ - Result: reachable. - Visible public role remained: Roman V. Yampolskiy, Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Speed School of Engineering; Director, Cybersecurity Laboratory; Department of Computer Engineering & Computer Science. - No new dated faculty-page update marker was verified during this check. 3. Google Scholar profile - URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0_Rq68cAAAAJ - Result: reachable, but not reliable for a complete current-publication scan in this unattended environment. - No new post-Sept. 1 publication was verified from visible Scholar output during this check. 4. Official YouTube / Roman Forum feed - Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RomanYampolskiy - Feed checked: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCPIq6Bb-1iLmqyksJjy4kLQ - Result: active. - New feed entries after the Sept. 1 note were verified: - `AI Risk: From Taboo to Institutional` - short published 2026-09-01; URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LidtYRklXYg - `Humanity Is Not the Final Form: Dan Faggella on AI and Posthuman Evolution` - long-form episode published 2026-09-04; URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAHE1YXZFU - `Daniel Faggella Explores the Loneliness of AI Ethics in Academia` - short published 2026-09-04; URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ar8n4N7qYNc - `Main Character Strata of Reality` - short published 2026-09-04; URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EnEBmKJ1Uxk - yt-dlp metadata verified the long-form Dan Faggella episode title, Roman Forum channel, upload date 2026-09-04, duration 6052 seconds, and description summary about posthuman intelligence, worthy successor framing, consciousness, and AI trajectory. ### Social / platform pages checked - X/Twitter: https://x.com/romanyam - public profile found by search; not used alone for public-page claims. - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanyam - public profile link checked as a professional/social route; not used for private contact extraction. - YouTube community tab: public browser HTML indicated a recent post mentioning Richard Dawkins, author of `The Selfish Gene`; this remains a social-platform lead only because no authoritative appearance page or dated video entry was verified during this run. - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/romanyam/ - search found a Sept. 14 reel snippet quoting Yampolskiy; treated as third-party/social lead, not a substantive update to the Managing Expectations profile. - Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DrRomanYampolskiy/ - checked as a public page route; not reliably extractable for individual posts in this unattended environment. ### Search / discovery checks Searches were run for recent Yampolskiy AI-safety, interview, podcast, paper, appearance, and `AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable` leads. New or newly verified post-Sept. 1 public materials: 1. `One AI Risk to Rule Them All with Roman Yampolskiy | TGS 233` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhXP1TeUTkw - Show page: https://thegreatsimplification.com/episode/233-roman-yampolskiy - Transcript/search mirror: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-great-simplification-with-nate-hagens/banning-superintelligence-are-we-building-humanitys-replacement-with-roman-yampolskiy - Published/uploaded: 2026-09-09 by Nate Hagens / The Great Simplification; conversation recorded 2026-09-01. - yt-dlp metadata verified title, channel, upload date 2026-09-09, and duration 3203 seconds. - Relevance: major recent public appearance focused on the claim that controllable superintelligence may be impossible, AI boxing/guardrail limits, multi-agent jailbreak concerns, narrow-tool alternatives, and global-ban/governance questions. - Caution: present the `Don't Build Gods`/ban-superintelligence argument as Yampolskiy's severe risk position, not as settled policy consensus. 2. `Humanity Is Not the Final Form: Dan Faggella on AI and Posthuman Evolution` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAHE1YXZFU - Source status: official Roman Forum / Yampolskiy YouTube channel upload. - Published/uploaded: 2026-09-04. - Relevance: meaningful new long-form Roman Forum episode extending the section from control-risk alone into posthuman evolution / worthy-successor debate. - Caution: posthuman trajectory and worthy-successor arguments are philosophical/forecast material, not proof of an inevitable outcome. 3. `Roman Yampolskiy - The Blacker the Box, the Bigger the Risk (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 3)` - URL: https://danfaggella.com/yampolskiy1/ - Published: 2025-08-15, but surfaced in this run because it is directly relevant to the newly published Dan Faggella Roman Forum episode. - Relevance: background source on Yampolskiy's `untestability` and black-box/control-risk framing. - Caution: not a new 2026 item; use only as background context if needed. 4. `Roman Yampolskiy vs Emad Mostaque: I Was The Only Optimist` - URL: https://playpodcasts.com/podcasts/into-the-impossible-with-brian-keating/roman-yampolskiy-vs-emad-mostaque-i-was-the-only-optimist-f2178565fa - Search and podcast mirrors showed Sept. 1, 2026. - Status: this was already partly surfaced in the Sept. 1 run as an appearance lead; it remains relevant background but was not the main new site update this cycle. ## New or newly logged public materials since 2026-09-01 ### Verified official-channel material 1. `Humanity Is Not the Final Form: Dan Faggella on AI and Posthuman Evolution` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhAHE1YXZFU - Published: 2026-09-04. - Source status: official Roman Forum / Yampolskiy YouTube channel upload. - Relevance: substantial new long-form episode on posthuman evolution, AI trajectory, successor framing, consciousness, and whether humanity can shape what comes after current human intelligence. 2. `AI Risk: From Taboo to Institutional` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LidtYRklXYg - Published: 2026-09-01. - Source status: official Roman Forum / Yampolskiy YouTube short. - Relevance: short-form current messaging around AI-risk normalization. 3. `Daniel Faggella Explores the Loneliness of AI Ethics in Academia` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ar8n4N7qYNc - Published: 2026-09-04. - Source status: official Roman Forum / Yampolskiy YouTube short. - Relevance: excerpt/short connected to the Dan Faggella episode. 4. `Main Character Strata of Reality` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EnEBmKJ1Uxk - Published: 2026-09-04. - Source status: official Roman Forum / Yampolskiy YouTube short. - Relevance: short connected to broader simulation/reality/posthuman discussion themes. ### Verified public appearance material 1. `One AI Risk to Rule Them All with Roman Yampolskiy | TGS 233` - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhXP1TeUTkw - Show page: https://thegreatsimplification.com/episode/233-roman-yampolskiy - Published/uploaded: 2026-09-09. - Channel/show: Nate Hagens / The Great Simplification. - Source status: public YouTube/podcast appearance; yt-dlp verified title, upload date, channel and duration; web/search results also exposed the episode description and transcript mirrors. - Relevance: substantive recent appearance where Yampolskiy argues for narrow task-specific AI rather than general superintelligence, stresses predictability/control, and discusses the feasibility of a global ban. - Caution: the source framing is intentionally severe. For Managing Expectations, keep it as current severe AI-risk argument and governance debate, not proof that extinction, a specific timeline, or a particular probability is established fact. ## Editorial update made Meaningful new public material was found: a new official Roman Forum long-form Dan Faggella episode and a new Nate Hagens / Great Simplification public appearance. The AI page was updated with a concise latest-check paragraph and the latest source-note link now points to this Sept. 15 note. Public framing used: > Latest check, Sept. 15, 2026: Yampolskiy's official Roman Forum feed added a long-form Dan Faggella episode on posthuman evolution, worthy-successor arguments and AI trajectory, and Nate Hagens published a new Great Simplification episode focused on `Don't Build Gods`, superintelligence control, boxing limits, narrow-tool alternatives and governance. Treat these as current severe AI-risk/philosophy/governance arguments, not proof that any exact timeline, `P(doom)` estimate, ban proposal or catastrophic outcome is settled consensus. ## Caution / verification labels - `Verified`: official website reachable; University page reachable; Google Scholar reachable; official YouTube RSS reachable; Dan Faggella Roman Forum episode verified via feed and yt-dlp metadata; related Roman Forum shorts verified via feed/yt-dlp; Nate Hagens / Great Simplification episode verified via yt-dlp metadata and search/source-page snippets. - `No new official-site update`: no new dated personal-site or faculty-page update was verified. - `Platform-limited`: Instagram and Facebook pages/posts were not relied on for substantive claims in the unattended cron environment. - `Social lead only`: recent Richard Dawkins community-post mention and Instagram reel snippets were logged as leads only, not as source-page updates. - `Background, not new`: Dan Faggella's 2025 written Yampolskiy interview and the Sept. 1 Emad Mostaque/Brian Keating podcast entry are useful context but not the main new update for this cycle. - `Framing caution`: severe AI-risk views, sensational titles, timelines and `P(doom)` estimates should be presented as arguments/forecasts, not as settled facts or prophecy.