A couple of years ago Stuart Russell, a British computer scientist who is one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence, was approached by a film director who wanted him to be a consultant on a movie. The director complained that there was too much doom and gloom about the future of superintelligent machines. He wanted Russell to explain how the human heroes in the film could save our species by outwitting AI. “Sorry,” Russell told the director. “They can’t.”Russell is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, who has worked for the UN to create a new system for monitoring the nuclear test-ban treaty, advised Downing Street and the White House,

Source: The Times January 29, 2022 12:07 UTC