The Berkeley professor Stuart Russell tells Danny Fortson why we are at a dangerous crossroads in our development of AI<\/p>\n
The Sunday Times,October 27 2019, 12:01am<\/p>\n
Stuart Russell has a rule. I wont do an interview until you agree not to put a Terminator on it, says the renowned British computer scientist, sitting in a spare room at his home in Berkeley, California. The media is very fond of putting a Terminator on anything to do with artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
The request is a tad ironic. Russell, after all, was the man behind Slaughterbots, a dystopian short film he released in 2017 with the Future of Life Institute. It depicts swarms of autonomous mini-drones small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and armed with a lethal explosive charge hunting down student protesters, congressmen, anyone really, and exploding in their faces. It wasnt exactly Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing people away but<\/p>\n
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