Roman Vladimirovich Yampolskiy (russian: link=no, Роман Владимирович Ямпольский; born 13 August 1979) is a Russian computer scientist at the

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, known for his work on behavioral

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of cyberworlds, and

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safety. He holds a PhD from the

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(2008). He is currently the director of Cyber Security Laboratory in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the

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. Yampolskiy is an author of some 100 publications, including numerous books.

AI safety

Yampolskiy has warned of the possibility of existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence, and has advocated research into "boxing" artificial intelligence. More broadly, Yampolskiy and his collaborator, Michaël Trazzi, have proposed introducing "achilles heels" into potentially dangerous AI, for example by barring an AI from accessing and modifying its own source code. Another proposal is to apply a "security mindset" to AI safety, itemizing potential outcomes in order to better evaluate proposed safety mechanisms.

Intellectology

In 2015, Yampolskiy launched intellectology, a new field of study founded to analyze the forms and limits of intelligence. Yampolskiy considers AI to be a sub-field of this. An example of Yampolskiy's intellectology work is an attempt to determine the relation between various types of minds and the accessible

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space, i.e. the space of non-boring activities.

Books

* ''Artificial Superintelligence: a Futuristic Approach. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), 2015'', . * ''Game Strategy: a Novel Behavioral Biometric. Independent University Press, 2009'', * ''Computer Security: from Passwords to Behavioral Biometrics. New Academic Publishing, 2008'', * ''Feature Extraction Approaches for Optical Character Recognition. Briviba Scientific Press, 2007'',

References

External links

Roman Yampolskiy’s Homepage

Cyber Security Lab at UofL

Interview of Dr. Yampolskiy on EEweb

Rise of the Machines
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AI safety

Intellectology

Books

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