5th Annual Governance of Emerging Technologies Conference: Part 3 - Bits, Bots & Biomarkers

He notes AI is a hot topic, and because of the existential risks involved, deserves nothing but cautious movement forward. He offers conceptual directives for AI to make it safe based entirely on uncertainty in a machine's objectives. Russell contends, as long as humans have special status in an AI's programming, and all their thinking revolves contextually about how to please humans, the AI should be safe. The audience shifts in their seats a bit when Russell begins by saying the world "Go" champion is an AI. The victorious software, AlphaGo, is Google's Deep Learning bot that has played every great Go player in the world and beaten all.