Stuart J. Russell
Acting
Biography
Stuart Jonathan Russell OBE FRS (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI).[5][3] He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.[6][7] He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.[8] He founded and leads the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley[9] and the International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (IASEAI).[10] Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the authoritative textbook of the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.[11] Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. CC BY-SA 4.0
Known For
A daily BBC Television current affairs programme which specialises in analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians.
Newsnight
Chronicles the extraordinary life of visionary scientist Demis Hassabis and his relentless quest to solve the enigma of artificial general intelligence.
The Thinking Game
Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence, and today a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?
Do You Trust this Computer?
Documentary and reflection about the effects of technology.
Cyberworld - The future is now
A UC Berkeley computer science professor helped to create a video that imagined a world where nuclear weapons were replaced by swarms of autonomous tiny drones that could kill half a city and are virtually unstoppable. Stuart Russell, the professor, said these drones are already a reality.