An interview with Dr. Stuart Russell, author of "Human Compatible, Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control" – TechCrunch

"Human Compatible" is a provocative prescription to re-think AI before it's too late Ned Desmond: Why did you write Human Compatible? Dr. Russell: I've been thinking about this problem – what if we succeed with AI? – on and off since the early 90s. The more I thought about it, the more I saw that the path we were on doesn't end well. So we'll just make more of it, and everything will be fine. When you start crossing over to systems that are more intelligent, operating on a global scale, and having real-world impact, like trading algorithms, for example, or social media content selection, then all of a sudden, you are having a big impact on real-world, and it's hard to control.