Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

December 9, 2018

Duration

1h 26m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Stuart Russell

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Stuart Russell, Stuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9 explores stuart Russell on Controlling Superhuman AI and Humanity’s Future Choices Stuart Russell and Lex Fridman discuss how modern AI systems reason, plan, and manage uncertainty, using game-playing programs and self-driving cars as core examples. Russell explains meta-reasoning—how AI decides what to think about—as a key ingredient in systems like AlphaGo, while contrasting these narrow successes with the messy, uncertain real world. He then turns to AI safety, arguing that the classic “fixed objective” model is fundamentally dangerous at scale and proposing that AI systems must instead be uncertain about human goals and learn them over time. They explore existential risks, overreliance on AI, regulatory gaps, and philosophical parallels to past technological and moral debates.

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