Stuart Russell

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TechStuff · The Man Who Wrote the AI Textbook Says We're Heading For Extinction - The Story · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

We have been saying for a long time, the International Association, many leading researchers, look, the risks are increasing, the system is getting more and more capable.

You must put in what we call red lines, meaning

Developers have to show their systems are not going to do these really dangerous things and as a prerequisite for being able to deploy their products.

So just like if you want to run a nuclear power station, you have to show it's not going to blow up.

Otherwise, you can't turn it on.

And that's fair enough.

And so that's just the kind of regulation we've been arguing for.

And now I just wish it was more systematic.

So they haven't, for example, turned off GPT 5.5, which can do many of the same kinds of cybersecurity things that Mythos can do.

So they haven't said, well, here's a standard.

And you have to meet that.

And if you don't, you don't get to release your system.

They sort of just reacted after the fact against a very specific target instead of setting a standard, which they should have done.

I think eventually it has to happen.

They can't go on just seeing bad things and then like...

firing a Hellfire missile at whoever did the bad thing.

There's just not a way to run things.

So I'm cautiously optimistic, but the industry has a very long record of preventing real regulation from happening.

That's a great question.

In fact, I was asked to be on the panel that sets the clock.

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