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How Not to Destroy the World with AI

The media are agog with claims that recent advances in AI put artificial general intelligence (AGI) within reach. Is this true? If so, is that a good thing? Alan Turing predicted that AGI would result in the machines taking control. I will argue that Turing was right to express concern but wrong to think that doom is inevitable. Instead, we need to develop a new kind of AI that is provably beneficial to humans.

Bio

Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. He is a recipient of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Computers and Thought Award, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Allen Newell Award. From 2012-14, he held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. In 2021, he received the Order of the British Empire from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and gave the British Broadcasting Corp. Reith Lectures. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an AI2050 Senior Fellow, and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His book “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI, used in over 1500 universities in 135 countries. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, with a current emphasis on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. He has developed a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty and is currently working to ban lethal autonomous weapons.

 

 

 

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