Will AI Take Over the World? This isn’t hype or click-bait—it’s the trajectory we’re already on. I’ve been immersed in AI research and understanding for the past five years—long before it captured the public’s imagination, but that certainly doesn’t make me a futurist. It has, however, given me a front-row seat to an inevitable shift: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is coming.
Google engineer and noted futurist Ray Kurzweil has long predicted 2029 for AGI and 2045 for the full “singularity.” Today, many leaders are moving that timeline forward: Sam Altman calls it a “near-term horizon,” and other experts point to 2027–2028.
Could we have slowed it down? Perhaps. But with China and other nations racing ahead, the world faces a classic #PrisonersDilemma: no single country can afford to stop while others press forward.
The Last Frontiers: Healthcare & Nonprofits
High-quality AI thrives on massive, well-structured data. Yet data in healthcare and the nonprofit sector remains dismally fragmented. These industries may be some of the last to be fully transformed—but change is already underway.
Consider ambient listening tools and automatic clinical note-taking: Clinicians can now look patients in the eye and truly listen, while AI transcribes the visit in real time. This isn’t just a technical upgrade. It’s a human one. It means fewer doctors and nurses with heads buried in laptops and more professionals present with their patients.
AI will indeed “take over” — hopefully not as a sci-fi villain, but as a force that reshapes every corner of work and life. The question isn’t if, it’s HOW we guide it.
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a leading voice in AI safety and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He coined the term “AI safety” in 2010 and has published over 100 papers on the dangers of AI. Worth paying attention so we can guide legislators, use it ethically, and pay attention for when and how we should take action.
Ignore the headline – it IS click bait. The interview is worth watching because of Yampolskiy’s expertise and Steven Bartlett‘s consistently strong content: excellent research, valuable fact definition and curious approach.