Stuart Russell: AI Safety Is Still Pre-Scientific

Stuart Russell is one of the world’s most influential artificial intelligence researchers, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, co-author of the standard textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, and a leading voice on the problem of keeping increasingly capable AI systems under human control. In this conversation, we discuss why Russell believes much of current AI safety remains “pre-scientific,” whether today’s systems can actually be made controllable, the risks of self-replication and recursive self-improvement, emerging multi-agent swarms, China–US cooperation on AI sa