Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley and author of 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,' the most widely used AI textbook in history. Leading researcher on AI safety and the alignment problem.
Russell is the rare AI safety voice who can't be dismissed as a doomer outsider — he literally wrote the textbook that trained the people building these systems. His argument that we should build AI systems that are uncertain about human preferences (rather than optimizing fixed objectives) is one of the most intellectually rigorous safety frameworks available. The frustration is that his ideas get respectful nods at conferences but haven't fundamentally changed how frontier labs approach alignment in practice. He deserves more influence than he currently has.
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