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"AI is Already Conscious": Computer Scientist's Dire Warning | Dr. Roman Yampolskiy

Oct 4, 2026 · 1h 3m

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Google fired Blake Lemoine for saying its systems were conscious. Three years later the same labs pay people to study whether their models feel anything, and Roman Yampolskiy calls those well paid jobs. He thinks the answer is already yes, in a small way, in the models that are running right now. He also thinks nobody put it there on purpose. 00:00 Blake Lemoine, fired by Google for saying the models feel something 10:36 "It's already uncontrollable" — every release ships with a red-team report 20:40 The first paper on hacking out of the simulation 31:54 Why an EMP would not stop it, and the counterargument he rejects 36:14 George Hotz on the programmer behind the simulation 41:04 Ikigai…