#53 — The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 24 November 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with computer scientist Stuart Russell about the challenge of building artificial intelligence that is compatible with human well-being.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.8	Today I'll be speaking with Stuart Russell. He is a professor of computer science and engineering
0:52.5	at UC Berkeley. He's also an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at UC San Francisco.
1:01.1	He is the author of the most widely read textbook on the subject of AI, artificial intelligence,
1:07.3	a modern approach. And over the course of these 90 minutes or so, we explore the topics that you
1:13.7	may have heard me raise in my TED talk. Anyway, Stuart is an expert in this field and a wealth of
1:21.3	information. And I hope you find this conversation as useful as I did. I increasingly think that this is a
1:28.9	a topic that will become more and more pressing every day. And if it doesn't for some reason,
1:37.6	it will only be because scarier things have distracted us from it. So things are going well
1:45.2	if we worry more and more about the consequences of AI or so it seems to me. And now I give you
1:55.2	Stuart Russell. I'm here with Stuart Russell. Stuart, thanks for coming on the podcast.
2:06.0	You're welcome. Our listeners should know you've been up nearly all night working on a paper
2:10.8	relevant to our topic at hand. So double thank you for doing this. No problem. I hope I will be
2:16.9	coherent. Well, you've got now nearly infinite latitude not to be. So perhaps you can tell us a
2:22.7	little bit about what you do. How do you describe your job at this point? So I'm a professor
2:28.4	Berkeley, a computer scientist. And I've worked in the area of artificial intelligence for about
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