Stuart Russell

On the other side, you've got very well-meaning, brilliant scientists like Jeff Hinton saying, actually, no, this is the end of the human race.

But Jeff doesn't have a $50 billion check.

So the view is the only way to stop the race is if governments intervene and say, okay, we don't want this race to go ahead until we can be sure that it's going ahead in absolute safety.

Contributions to artificial intelligence research.

Yep.

And I think take action as well.

I mean, some people say, oh, you know, AGI doesn't have to have a body.

But a good chunk of our intelligence actually is about managing our body, about perceiving the real environment and acting on it, moving, grasping, and so on.

So I think that's part of intelligence, and AGI systems should be able to operate robots successfully.

But there's often a misunderstanding, right, that people say, well, if it doesn't have a robot body, then it can't actually do anything.

But then if you remember, most of us don't do things with our bodies.

Some people do.

bricklayers, painters, gardeners, chefs.

But people who do podcasts, you're doing it with your mind, right?

You're doing it with your ability to produce language.

Adolf Hitler didn't do it with his body.

He did it by producing language.

I hope you're not comparing us.

No.

But, you know, so even an AGI that has no body, it actually has more access to the human race than Adolf Hitler ever did because it can send emails and texts to, what, three quarters of the world's population directly.