Roman Vladimirovich Yampolskiy (Russian: Роман Владимирович Ямпольский; born in Riga, 13 August 1979) is a Latvian computer scientist at the University of Louisville, mostly known for his work on AI safety and cybersecurity.

[5] More broadly, Yampolskiy and his collaborator, Michaël Trazzi, have proposed in 2018 to introduce "Achilles' heels" into potentially dangerous AI, for example by barring an AI from accessing and modifying its own source code.

[11] In an appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast in 2024, Yampolskiy predicted the chance that AI could lead to human extinction at "99.9% within the next hundred years".

[13] In 2015, Yampolskiy launched intellectology, a new field of study founded to analyze the forms and limits of intelligence.

[17] Yampolskiy has worked on developing the theory of AI-completeness, suggesting the Turing Test as a defining example.