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The Reith Lectures: Stuart Russell - Living With Artificial Intelligence: The Biggest Event in Human History

Stuart Russell - Living With Artificial Intelligence

The Biggest Event in Human History

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Stuart Russell asks how artificial intelligence could transform our world

Stuart Russell asks how artificial intelligence could transform world - and discusses whether fears of AI are well founded or whether we can learn to make it work for us?

Stuart Russell explores the future of Artificial Intelligence and asks; how can we get our relationship with it right? Professor Russell is founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley. In this lecture he reflects on the birth of AI, tracing our thinking about it back to Aristotle. He outlines the definition of AI, its successes and failures, and the risks it poses for the future. Referencing the representation of AI systems in film and popular culture, Professor Russell will examine whether our fears are well founded. He will explain what led him – alongside previous Reith Lecturer Professor Stephen Hawking to say that “success would be the biggest event in human history … and perhaps the last event in human history.” Stuart will ask how this risk arises and whether it can be avoided, allowing humanity and AI to coexist successfully.

This lecture and question-and-answer session was recorded at the Alan Turing Institute at the British Library in London.
Presenter: Anita Anand
Producer: Jim Frank
Editor: Hugh Levinson
Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound: Neil Churchill and Hal Haines

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Stuart Russell explores the future of AI and asks: how can we get it right?

In his 2021 Reith Lectures Stuart Russell explores the future of AI and asks: how can we get it right?

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