Head of Center for Human-Compatible AI Offers Berkeley Lecture

California magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Pat Joseph in conversation with Professor Stuart Russell, head of UC Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, about both the tremendous promise and considerable perils of artificial intelligence. The YouTube link below has a full recording of the discussion.

From the CAA: In 2023, TIME magazine counted Stuart Russell among the 100 Most Influential People in AI. He is coauthor, with Peter Norvig, of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the standard text on AI, and the author of Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. A professor of electrical engineering and computer science and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley, he is also an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at UC San Francisco and Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on AI and Robotics.

California magazine is published by the Cal Alumni Association, UC Berkeley’s alumni association. Learn more at californiamag.org.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEGjCcU0FLs