Stuart Russell
The Textbook and the Warning
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Rating
89Impact score
Domains
AI foundationsValue alignmentPolicy
Scouting report
Co-wrote Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach with Peter Norvig, the textbook that has taught the subject in essentially every university for thirty years. Then spent the later part of his career arguing that optimising a fixed objective is the wrong design, and that systems should be uncertain about what humans want.
Curator’s note
Taught the field its vocabulary, then told it the foundation was wrong.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Stuart Russell by Unknown authorUnknown author, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sources
- 01Stuart J. Russell en.wikipedia.org
- 02Center for Human-Compatible AI humancompatible.ai