Lex Fridman PodcastStuart Russell: Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #9
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- December 9, 2018
- Duration
- 1h 26m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and a co-author of the book that introduced me and millions of other people to AI, called Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep9-sb See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact *PODCAST LINKS:*
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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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