Stuart Russell
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Stuart Russell reads as The Guardian because his career has become an extended act of stewardship over a technology he understands intimately. The UC Berkeley AI professor speaks with the caution of someone who has weighed what could go wrong, and his appearance on The Diary of a CEO carried that protective register throughout. He leads by insisting that capability without safeguards is not progress, holding the line where enthusiasm outruns responsibility.
“After 50 years I could retire, but instead I'm working 80 or 100 hours a week trying to move things in the right direction.”
“They are playing Russian roulette with every human being on Earth. Without our permission, putting a gun to the head of our children. Did they ask us? No.”
“Without safety, there will be no AI. There is no future with human beings where we have unsafe AI. So it's either no AI or safe AI.”
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