Stuart Russell on AI
7 quotes from Stuart Russell on the wall, 2023 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include NOEMA, Fortune, Business Insider.
- 2026
We don't know how to solve it, and we're not really even working on it
Stuart Russell, quoting AI company employees on the control problem, in a Noema Magazine interview, 2026.
NOEMAAI Has Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition - Noema Magazine
Stuart Russell, AI scientist at UC Berkeley, describing the threshold where AI systems achieve their objectives regardless of human intent, in a Noema Magazine interview, 2026.
NOEMAAI Has Entered The ‘Loss Of Control’ Transition - Noema Magazine
Play Russian roulette with every human being on earth
Stuart Russell at the AI Impact Summit, New Delhi, February 2026: for governments to allow it is "a total dereliction of duty".
- 2025
Playing russian roulette with every adult and every child in the world
Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley professor and AI researcher, told CNBC in October 2025 that tech CEOs racing toward superintelligence are gambling with humanity's survival.
Business InsiderAI Pioneer Says Big Tech's Trillion-Dollar Race Could Destroy Humanity
All they can do is double down
Stuart Russell, computer scientist at UC Berkeley, to Live Science, March 2025, on AI companies' response to diminishing returns from scaling.
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The AGI race is a race towards the edge of a cliff
Stuart Russell, in a Newsweek opinion piece on DeepSeek and OpenAI, January 2025.
NewsweekDeepSeek, OpenAI, and the Race to Human Extinction | Opinion - newsweek.com
- 2023
What's to stop Dr. Evil building general purpose AI that's going to destroy the world?
Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley computer science professor, in a CNN Opinion interview published May 31, 2023, discussing risks of general purpose AI.
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