Stuart Russell
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first heard Dec 2018
last heard 24 Jun
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Well, I started doing AI in high school back in England.
But then I did my PhD starting in 82 at Stanford.
I joined the faculty at Berkeley in 86.
So I'm my 40th year as a professor at Berkeley.
The main thing that the AI community is familiar with in my work is a textbook that I wrote.
So it was with one of the CEOs of a leading AI company.
He sees two possibilities, as do I, which is either we have a small or, let's say, small-scale disaster of the same scale as Chernobyl.
Yeah, so this nuclear plant blew up in 1986, killed a fair number of people directly and...
maybe tens of thousands of people indirectly through radiation.
Recent cost estimates, more than a trillion dollars.
So that would wake people up.
That would get the governments to regulate.
He's talked to the governments and they won't do it.
So he looked at this Chernobyl scale disaster as the best case scenario because then the governments would regulate.
Yeah, it wouldn't have to be a nuclear disaster.
It would be either an AI system that's being misused by someone, for example, to engineer a pandemic, or an AI system that does something itself, such as crashing our financial system or our communication systems.
The alternative is a much worse disaster where we just lose control altogether.
Yes, it's...
It must be a very difficult position to be in, in a sense, right?
You're doing something that you know has a good chance of bringing an end to life on Earth, including that of yourself and your own family.
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