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The Reith Lectures: Stuart Russell - Living With Artificial Intelligence: AI in the economy

Stuart Russell - Living With Artificial Intelligence

AI in the economy

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What will artificial intelligence mean for the future of work?

Stuart Russell considers the future of work in a world where most of our jobs might be carried out by artificial intelligence. If so, what are we going to do?

Professor Stuart Russell explores the future of work and one of the most concerning issues raised by Artificial Intelligence: the threat to jobs.  How will the economy adapt as work is increasingly done by machines? Economists’ forecasts range from rosy scenarios of human-AI teamwork, to dystopian visions in which most people are excluded from the economy altogether.  Was the economist Keynes correct when he said that we were born to “strive”?  If much of the work in future will be carried out by machines, what does that mean for humans? What will we do?    

Stuart Russell is Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley.  

The lecture and question-and-answer session was recorded at Edinburgh University.
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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