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INTERVIEW. “It is reasonable to be afraid of competent machines pursuing ill-defined objectives,” says researcher Stuart Russell.

Interview by Guillaume Grallet

Stuart Russell is the author, alongside American scientist Peter Norvig, ofArtificial Intelligence. A Modern Approacha reference work published in 1995.
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Published on 08/01/2023 at 4:00 p.m.

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PProfessor at Berkeley, Stuart Russell is the author, alongside the American scientist Peter Norvig, ofArtificial Intelligence. A Modern Approach, a reference book published in 1995. The former head of the Blaise-Pascal chair at the computer science laboratory – CNRS – Sorbonne University is also a member of the Future of Life Institute, a think tank that reflects on the impact of artificial intelligence on society. The researcher born in 1962 in Portsmouth, England, who first trained in theoretical physics at Oxford before opting for computer science at Stanford, explains in simple words the challenges of artificial intelligence. “Having access to more intelligence could allow us to have a much better civilization”, believes, in fact, Stuart Russell who app…

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