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Stuart Russell publishes Human Compatible
A leading AI textbook author argues machines should be unsure what we want
Key facts
- Date
- 8 Oct 2019
- Era
- Prologue
- Interest
- Books
- Threads
- Safety & governance
- Author
- Stuart J. Russell
- Full title
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
- Publisher
- Viking (US), Allen Lane (UK)
Stuart Russell argued that machines built to pursue fixed objectives could resist human control, even refusing to be switched off. He proposed rebuilding AI so that machines are inherently uncertain about the human preferences they are meant to satisfy, which would make them defer to people.
Sources
- Penguin Random House, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, 2019-10-08
- The Guardian, Human Compatible by Stuart Russell review – AI and our future, 2019-10-24