Stuart Russell
Professor of computer science, UC Berkeley
Worried, this week
Capability 4Outlook 2
Where they stand
Against all 33 people scored in Week 44. Bars count people at each score; black is Russell, the dashed line is the average.
What they've said
- Friday, Oct 30Week 44
At the Vatican conference on AI, Russell said
We must turn aside from this trajectory before it is too late and pursue other trajectories,
adding that if developers succeed,there’s a good chance that every human being will die.
Russell spoke at the one-day meeting organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Future of Life Institute, whose participants the pope received the same day. He was calling for an end to the race toward ever more powerful systems.
Details and sources
Quoted from the conference's Oct 30 press release as reported by EWTN News; the full remarks were not found. Max Tegmark, also present, said
EWTN NewsWith strong moral leadership, the Vatican can help steer AI development onto a better pro-human path.