Stuart Russell

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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

Pure intelligence might decide that actually it's going to make life wonderful for cockroaches or actually doesn't care about biological life at all.

We actually want intelligence whose only purpose is to bring about the future that we want.

So we want it to be, first of all, keyed to humans specifically, not to cockroaches, not to aliens, not to itself.

We want to make it loyal to humans.

Right, so keyed to humans.

And the difficulty that I mentioned earlier, the King Midas problem, how do we specify what we want the future to be like so that it can do it for us?

How do we specify the objectives?

Actually, we have to give up on that idea.

Because it's not possible, right?

We've seen this over and over again in human history.

We don't know how to specify the future properly.

We don't know how to say what we want.

And, you know, I always use the example of the genie, right?

What's the third wish that you give to the genie who's granted you three wishes, right?

Undo the first two wishes because I've made a mess of the universe.

So...

So in fact, what we're going to do is we're going to make it the machine's job to figure out.

So it has to bring about the future that we want, but it has to figure out what that is.

And it's going to start out not knowing.

And, uh,

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