Quotes from Stuart J. Russell

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.