The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Stuart Russell reads as The Guardian because his career has become an extended act of stewardship over a technology he understands intimately. The UC Berkeley AI professor speaks with the caution of someone who has weighed what could go wrong, and his appearance on The Diary of a CEO carried that protective register throughout.
“In the process of having the idea about the chain reaction, he figured out basically how to make a bomb and also how to make a reactor He patented the reactor in 1934, but because of the situation, the great power conflict situation that he could see happening, he kept that a secret. And so between then And the beginning of World War II.”
“Well, so it doesn't take a genius to realize that if you make something that's smarter than you, you might have a problem. And Turing, Alan Turing. Wrote about this and gave lectures about this in 1951.”
“Yeah, I think that the nature of debate and disagreement argument. A premise the idea that you could be wrong, which means that you're not necessarily absolutely convinced that your objective is the correct one.”
“There are things about chess that don't resemble the real world, right? We know the rules of chess. The chessboard is completely visible to the program, where of course the real world is not. Most of the real world is not visible from wherever you're sitting, so to speak.”
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