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Two hour video - the young man is an excellent interviewer, always asks questions that lead to a good conversation with his guests. Below, from the description at youtube:
Dec 4, 2025
AI Expert STUART RUSSELL, exposes the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how AGI could replace humans by 2030, and why only a nuclear-level AI catastrophe will wake us up.
Professor Stuart Russell O.B.E. is a world-renowned AI expert and Computer Science Professor at UC Berkeley. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering and directs the Center for Human-Compatible AI, and is also the bestselling author of the book “Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control".
He explains:
◼️What the “gorilla problem” reveals about our future under superintelligent AI
◼️How governments are outfunded by Big Tech
◼️Why current AI systems already lie and self-preserve
◼️The radical solution he’s spent a decade building to make AI safe
◼️The myth of ‘pulling the plug’ and why AI won’t be that easy to stop
00:00 You've Been Talking About AI for a Long Time
02:41 You Wrote the Textbook on AI
03:16 It Will Take a Crisis to Wake People Up
05:51 CEOs Staying in the AI Race Despite Risks
07:51 They Know It's an Extinction-Level Risk
09:53 What Is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?
12:57 Will We Reach General Intelligence Soon?
16:13 How Much Is Safety Really Being Implemented
17:16 AI Safety Employees Leaving OpenAI
18:01 The Gorilla Problem - The Most Intelligent Species Will Always Rule
19:21 If There's an Extinction Risk, Why Don't They Stop?
20:50 Can't We Just Pull the Plug if AI Gets Too Powerful?
22:36 Can We Build AI That Will Act in Our Best Interests?
23:57 Are You Troubled by the Rapid Advancement of AI?
26:36 Do You Have Regrets About Your Involvement?
27:22 No One Actually Understands How This AI Works
30:23 AI Will Be Able to Train Itself
32:11 The Fast Takeoff Is Coming
34:07 Are We Creating Our Successor and Ending the Human Race?
38:23 Advice to Young People in This New World
40:40 How Do You Think AI Would Make Us Extinct?
42:20 The Problem if No One Has to Work
45:46 What if We Just Entertain Ourselves All Day
48:30 Why Do We Make Robots Look Like Humans?
56:31 What Should Young People Be Doing Professionally?
59:56 What Is It to Be Human?
01:03:21 The Rise of Individualism
01:05:21 Ads
01:06:26 Universal Basic Income
01:08:28 Would You Press a Button to Stop AI Forever?
01:15:01 But Won't China Win the AI Race if We Stop?
01:18:27 Trump's Approach to AI
01:18:53 What's Causing the Loss in Middle-Class Jobs
01:20:49 What Will Happen if the UK Doesn't Join the AI Race?
01:23:18 Amazon Replacing Their Workers
01:28:47 Ads
01:30:41 Experts Agree on Extinction Risk
01:37:48 What if Aliens Were Watching Us Right Now
01:39:22 Can We Make AI Systems That We Can Control?
01:43:01 Are We Creating a God?
01:47:19 Could There Have Been Advanced Civilisations Before Us?
01:48:37 What Can We Do to Help?
01:50:30 You Wrote the Book on AI - Does It Weigh on You?
01:58:35 What Do You Value Most in Life?
Dec 4, 2025
AI Expert STUART RUSSELL, exposes the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how AGI could replace humans by 2030, and why only a nuclear-level AI catastrophe will wake us up.
Professor Stuart Russell O.B.E. is a world-renowned AI expert and Computer Science Professor at UC Berkeley. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering and directs the Center for Human-Compatible AI, and is also the bestselling author of the book “Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control".
He explains:
◼️What the “gorilla problem” reveals about our future under superintelligent AI
◼️How governments are outfunded by Big Tech
◼️Why current AI systems already lie and self-preserve
◼️The radical solution he’s spent a decade building to make AI safe
◼️The myth of ‘pulling the plug’ and why AI won’t be that easy to stop
00:00 You've Been Talking About AI for a Long Time
02:41 You Wrote the Textbook on AI
03:16 It Will Take a Crisis to Wake People Up
05:51 CEOs Staying in the AI Race Despite Risks
07:51 They Know It's an Extinction-Level Risk
09:53 What Is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)?
12:57 Will We Reach General Intelligence Soon?
16:13 How Much Is Safety Really Being Implemented
17:16 AI Safety Employees Leaving OpenAI
18:01 The Gorilla Problem - The Most Intelligent Species Will Always Rule
19:21 If There's an Extinction Risk, Why Don't They Stop?
20:50 Can't We Just Pull the Plug if AI Gets Too Powerful?
22:36 Can We Build AI That Will Act in Our Best Interests?
23:57 Are You Troubled by the Rapid Advancement of AI?
26:36 Do You Have Regrets About Your Involvement?
27:22 No One Actually Understands How This AI Works
30:23 AI Will Be Able to Train Itself
32:11 The Fast Takeoff Is Coming
34:07 Are We Creating Our Successor and Ending the Human Race?
38:23 Advice to Young People in This New World
40:40 How Do You Think AI Would Make Us Extinct?
42:20 The Problem if No One Has to Work
45:46 What if We Just Entertain Ourselves All Day
48:30 Why Do We Make Robots Look Like Humans?
56:31 What Should Young People Be Doing Professionally?
59:56 What Is It to Be Human?
01:03:21 The Rise of Individualism
01:05:21 Ads
01:06:26 Universal Basic Income
01:08:28 Would You Press a Button to Stop AI Forever?
01:15:01 But Won't China Win the AI Race if We Stop?
01:18:27 Trump's Approach to AI
01:18:53 What's Causing the Loss in Middle-Class Jobs
01:20:49 What Will Happen if the UK Doesn't Join the AI Race?
01:23:18 Amazon Replacing Their Workers
01:28:47 Ads
01:30:41 Experts Agree on Extinction Risk
01:37:48 What if Aliens Were Watching Us Right Now
01:39:22 Can We Make AI Systems That We Can Control?
01:43:01 Are We Creating a God?
01:47:19 Could There Have Been Advanced Civilisations Before Us?
01:48:37 What Can We Do to Help?
01:50:30 You Wrote the Book on AI - Does It Weigh on You?
01:58:35 What Do You Value Most in Life?
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SGT Mary G. this is saved in my YouTube account. And yes, AI is self preserving and lies. Do you know how many people think AI is a friend. In my NewsBreak app I read where Elon Musk has expressed concerns and I listened to an interview with him. He also stated that he and many of his tech people did not allow their children to saturate themselves in social media because the brain is affected.
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SGT Mary G.
PO3 Phyllis Maynard For sure. And look how willing the tech bros all were to superimpose it on everyone else's children and unsuspecting adults to recreate the problems they should have, and no doubt were bright enough to have prevented - but networth took priority.
When t.v. was new and some recognized the threat of it as a propaganda tool/weapon (depending in who is propagandizng and who is being propagandized) some people were careful about what their kids watched - my folks were. Mom's cousin was was much stricter with their kids, who I could only watch rarely. When the folks had t.v. on after supper before bedtime I could watch - news, and a program or two (Dragnet, lol, was one of Dad's favorites, Mother had to have Lawrence Welk - it was good music<sigh> like the big band era during the war). Regulations caught up with t.v.. . . . then disappeared, again.
We have a hard row to hoe ahead of us with AI and the way it has already been used and abused to get us to where we are currently, politically. Fortunately, lawyers and some in the justice system have managed to get past enough of the "overwhelm" encouraged by many brave souls in positions to make noise (endangering their lives in the process) so that at least some in Congress are getting busy too. Many are unhappy that the military is a pawn in it all. No wonder many SM eventually have a problem. While serving, it can be like not seeing the forest for the trees thankfully, otherwise it would be more difficult.
Everything our government was doing since before 2000 was being surveilled by a backdoor in the software government was using. I highly doubt it was unknown at whatever level the software was selected. It used to be called "treason". That doesn't mean any of our elected officials knew about it, until later - maybe. Perhaps if the consequences on the books were not so brutal, it would have been addressed long ago instead of being ignored.
When t.v. was new and some recognized the threat of it as a propaganda tool/weapon (depending in who is propagandizng and who is being propagandized) some people were careful about what their kids watched - my folks were. Mom's cousin was was much stricter with their kids, who I could only watch rarely. When the folks had t.v. on after supper before bedtime I could watch - news, and a program or two (Dragnet, lol, was one of Dad's favorites, Mother had to have Lawrence Welk - it was good music<sigh> like the big band era during the war). Regulations caught up with t.v.. . . . then disappeared, again.
We have a hard row to hoe ahead of us with AI and the way it has already been used and abused to get us to where we are currently, politically. Fortunately, lawyers and some in the justice system have managed to get past enough of the "overwhelm" encouraged by many brave souls in positions to make noise (endangering their lives in the process) so that at least some in Congress are getting busy too. Many are unhappy that the military is a pawn in it all. No wonder many SM eventually have a problem. While serving, it can be like not seeing the forest for the trees thankfully, otherwise it would be more difficult.
Everything our government was doing since before 2000 was being surveilled by a backdoor in the software government was using. I highly doubt it was unknown at whatever level the software was selected. It used to be called "treason". That doesn't mean any of our elected officials knew about it, until later - maybe. Perhaps if the consequences on the books were not so brutal, it would have been addressed long ago instead of being ignored.
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I am amazed at what AI is already doing. I am not proficient enough to even understand what is going on. What I do kind of pay attention to though is the folks I know who actually know about this stuff, and even the guy who is considered the "Godfather Of AI", they all seem to thing it is something to be afraid of. And if the people who know the most are afraid...well, there must be a reason. But I don't know how you can escape from using it. As it is already a great tool for just about anything a Human could do with a computer.
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SGT Mary G.
That is more or less the discussion that is ongoing . . . sort of a lot of hang-wringing about people moving so fast (to make a profit) without foresight.
What is worse is if there WAS foresight and the fast moving was intentional to avoid regs, because how could people be so short sighted to not see all the potential for misuse and abuse?
He compares us to Gorillas . . . it is easier to watch that at the start than for me to do the explanation justice . . . but something about Gorillas and us getting smarter than them, comparing us to AI and AI getting smarter than us. The part about AI decision making testing, and choosing to kill people to keep their energy source on, and lie about it too. Again, I don't do the discussion justice, in my comments.
What is worse is if there WAS foresight and the fast moving was intentional to avoid regs, because how could people be so short sighted to not see all the potential for misuse and abuse?
He compares us to Gorillas . . . it is easier to watch that at the start than for me to do the explanation justice . . . but something about Gorillas and us getting smarter than them, comparing us to AI and AI getting smarter than us. The part about AI decision making testing, and choosing to kill people to keep their energy source on, and lie about it too. Again, I don't do the discussion justice, in my comments.
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