Stuart J. Russell

This is not a ban or even a moratorium in the usual sense. It’s simply a proposal to require adequate safety measures for a technology that, according to its developers, has a significant chance to cause human extinction. Is that too much to ask?

This is not a ban or even a moratorium in the usual sense. It’s simply a proposal to require adequate safety measures for a technology that, according to its developers, has a significant chance to cause human extinction. Is that too much to ask?

"I've spoken to engineers in those companies who think it's now 60 or 70%," Russell said, referring to the probability of catastrophic outcomes from AI development. "So we're off by a factor of 10 to 50 million. And so that's not a very impressive en...

For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty [...] Each of the CEOs of the main AI companies, I believe, wants to disarm but cannot do so "u...

For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty. [...] Each of the CEOs of the main AI companies, I believe, wants to disarm, Russell said, but...

Whichever company develops AGI first would have a significant advantage that would then increase relative to the other companies. That company — or a small handful of companies — may control a majority of economic activity on the planet and governmen...

“If we pursue [our current approach], then we will eventually lose control over the machines. But, we can take a different route that actually leads to AI systems that are beneficial to humans,” said Russell. “We could, in fact, have a better civiliz...

“If we pursue [our current approach], then we will eventually lose control over the machines. But, we can take a different route that actually leads to AI systems that are beneficial to humans,” said Russell. “We could, in fact, have a better civiliz...