Roman V Yampolskiy

Biographic Data

ID3474038
NAMERoman V Yampolskiy
GIVEN NAMESRoman V
FAMILY NAMEYampolskiy
SIGNATUREYAMPOLSKIY R V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Louisville
ORCID0000-0001-9637-1161
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Designing AI for Explainability and Verifiability

    Open AccessSteven Umbrello, Roman V YampolskiyARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2022

    One of the primary, if not most critical, difficulties in the design and implementation of autonomous systems is the black-boxed nature of the decision-making structures and logical pathways. How human values are embodied and actualised in situ may ultimately prove to be harmful if not outright recalcitrant. For this reason, the values of stakeholders become of particular significance given the risks posed by opaque structures of intelligent agen…

  • Transdisciplinary AI Observatory—Retrospective Analyses and Future-Oriented Contradistinctions

    Open AccessNadisha-Marie Aliman, Leon Kester et al.ARTICLEPhilosophies2021

    In the last years, artificial intelligence (AI) safety gained international recognition in the light of heterogeneous safety-critical and ethical issues that risk overshadowing the broad beneficial impacts of AI. In this context, the implementation of AI observatory endeavors represents one key research direction. This paper motivates the need for an inherently transdisciplinary AI observatory approach integrating diverse retrospective and counte…

  • Understanding and Avoiding AI Failures

    Open AccessRobert Williams, Robert M Williams et al.ARTICLEPhilosophies2021

    As AI technologies increase in capability and ubiquity, AI accidents are becoming more common. Based on normal accident theory, high reliability theory, and open systems theory, we create a framework for understanding the risks associated with AI applications. This framework is designed to direct attention to pertinent system properties without requiring unwieldy amounts of accuracy. In addition, we also use AI safety principles to quantify the u…

  • An AGI Modifying Its Utility Function in Violation of the Strong Orthogonality Thesis

    Open AccessJames D Miller, Roman V Yampolskiy et al.ARTICLEPhilosophies2020

    An artificial general intelligence (AGI) might have an instrumental drive to modify its utility function to improve its ability to cooperate, bargain, promise, threaten, and resist and engage in blackmail. Such an AGI would necessarily have a utility function that was at least partially observable and that was influenced by how other agents chose to interact with it. This instrumental drive would conflict with the strong orthogonality thesis sinc…

  • Long-term trajectories of human civilization

    Open AccessSeth D Baum, Stuart Armstrong et al.ARTICLEforesight2019Cited by: 13References: 6

    Purpose: This paper formalizes long-term trajectories of human civilization as a scientific and ethical field of study. The long-term trajectory of human civilization can be defined as the path that human civilization takes during the entire future time period in which human civilization could continue to exist. Approach: We focus on four types of trajectories: status quo trajectories, in which human civilization persists in a state broadly simil…

  • Global catastrophic risk and security implications of quantum computers

    Open AccessAndy Majot, Roman V Yampolskiy et al.ARTICLEFutures2015Cited by: 2References: 13