Stuart Russell
Author of Human Compatible; Berkeley professor
Co-author of the standard textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach and founder of Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI. He argues the field's standard model of fixed objectives is the root of the control problem.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues the field's "standard model" — build machines that optimize a fixed objective we specify — is the source of the control problem.
- Proposes provably beneficial AI: systems uncertain about human preferences, and therefore willing to be corrected and switched off.
- Supports binding regulation and international agreements on frontier systems, and co-signed the 2023 call for a training pause.
Accomplishments
- Co-author, with Peter Norvig, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the field's standard textbook.
- Professor of computer science at UC Berkeley; founder of the Center for Human-Compatible AI.
- Delivered the 2021 BBC Reith Lectures on living with artificial intelligence.
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