Stuart Russell

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1,902 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2018 last heard 24 Jun

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · The Man Who Wrote The Book On AI: 2030 Might Be The Point Of No Return! We've Been Lied To About AI! · 4 Dec 2025 podcast

And I think the answer is yes.

And this is actually what I've been working on.

So I think one part of my career that I didn't mention is sort of having this epiphany while I was on sabbatical in Paris.

This was 2013 or so.

Just realizing that further progress in the capabilities of AI, you know, if we succeeded in creating real superhuman intelligence, that it was potentially a catastrophe.

And so I pretty much switched my focus to work on how do we make it so that it's guaranteed to be safe.

That's an understatement.

I'm appalled, actually, by the lack of attention to safety.

I mean, imagine if someone's building a nuclear power station in your neighbourhood.

And you go along to the chief engineer and you say, okay, these nuclear things, I've heard that they can actually explode, right?

There was this nuclear explosion that happened in Hiroshima.

So I'm a bit worried about this.

You know, what steps are you taking to make sure that we don't have a nuclear explosion in our backyard?

And the chief engineer says, well, we thought about it.

We don't really have an answer.

Yeah.

What would you say?

I think you would use some expletives.

And you'd call your MP and say, you know, get these people out.

I mean, what are they doing?

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