Stuart Russell

the AI systems will say, you know, the human race doesn't in the long run want to be passengers in a cruise ship.

The human race wants autonomy.

This is part of human preferences.

So we, the AI systems are not going to do this stuff for you.

You've got to do it for yourself, right?

I'm not going to carry you to the top of Everest in an autonomous helicopter.

You have to climb it if you want to get the benefit and so on.

So,

But I'm afraid that because we are short-sighted and lazy, we're going to override the AI systems.

And there's an amazing short story that I recommend to everyone that I talk to about this called The Machine Stops.

written in 1909 by E.M.

Forster, who, you know, wrote novels about the British Empire and sort of things that became costume dramas on the BBC.

But he wrote this one science fiction story, which is an amazing story.

vision of the future.

It has basically iPads, it has video conferencing, it has MOOCs, it has computer-induced obesity.

I mean, literally, it's what people spend their time doing is giving online courses or listening to online courses and talking about ideas.

But

They never get out there in the real world.

They don't really have a lot of face-to-face contact.

Everything is done online.