Rory Cellan-Jones
Technology correspondent
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The Reith Lectures are in Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh and London
Prof Stuart Russell, founder of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, at the University of California, Berkeley, is giving this year’s Reith Lectures.
His four lectures, Living With Artificial Intelligence, address the existential threat from machines more powerful than humans – and offer a way forward.
Last month, he spoke to then BBC News technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones about what to expect.
How have you shaped the lectures?
The first drafts that I sent them were much too pointy-headed, much too focused on the intellectual roots of AI and the various definitions of rationality and how they emerged over history and things like that.
So I readjusted – and we have one lecture that introduces AI and the future prospects both good and bad.
And then, we talk about weapons and we talk about jobs.
And then, the fourth one will be: “OK, here’s how we avoid losing control over AI systems in the future.”
