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

You know, we used to hunt on the... To attain goals, right?

It's always, if I wanted to climb Everest, the last thing I would want is someone to pick me up in a helicopter and stick me on the top.

Yeah, no, I think there's real value in the ability to do things and the doing of those things.

And I think the obvious danger is the Wall-E world where everyone just consumes entertainment, which doesn't require much education and doesn't lead to a rich, satisfying life, I think, in the long run.

A lot of people will choose that world.

I think some people may.

There's also, I mean...

You know, whether you're consuming entertainment or whether you're doing something, you know, cooking or painting, whatever, because it's fun and interesting to do, what's missing from that, right?

All of that is purely selfish.

I think one of the reasons we work is because we feel valued.

We feel like we're benefiting other people.

And I remember having this conversation with a lady in England who helps to run the hospice movement.

And the people who work in the hospices where the patients are literally there to die are largely volunteers, so they're not doing it to get paid.

But they find it incredibly rewarding to be able to spend time with people who are in their last weeks or months to give them company and happiness.

So I actually think that interpersonal

will be much, much more important in future.

So if I was going to advise my kids, not that they would ever listen, but if my kids would listen and wanted to know what I thought would be valued careers in future, I think it would be these interpersonal roles based on an understanding of human needs, psychology.

There are some of those roles right now,

So obviously, you know, therapists and psychiatrists and so on, but that's a very much an asymmetric

where one person is suffering and the other person is trying to alleviate the suffering.

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