Stuart Russell

So what are they doing?

They are playing Russian roulette with every human being on earth without our permission.

They're coming into our houses, putting a gun to the head of our children and

pulling the trigger and saying, well, you know, possibly everyone will die.

Oops.

But possibly we'll get incredibly rich.

That's what they're doing.

Did they ask us?

No.

Why is the government allowing them to do this?

Because they dangle $50 billion checks in front of the governments.

So I think troubled under the surface is an understatement.

appalled.

And I am devoting my life to trying to divert from this course of history into a different one.

Well, I do wish I had understood earlier what I understand now.

We could have developed safe AI systems.

I think there are some weaknesses in the framework, which I can explain, but I think that framework could have evolved to develop actually safe AI systems where we could prove mathematically that the system is going to act in our interest.

the kind of AI systems we're building now, we don't understand how they work.

So with most machines, we designed it to have a certain behavior.

So we don't need to pull it apart and see what the cogs are because we put the cogs in there in the first place, right?