Professor Stuart Russell told The Times ministers were favouring a light touch on the burgeoning AI industry, despite warnings from civil servants it could create an existential threat. A former adviser to both Downing Street and the White House, Professor Russell is a co-author of the most widely used AI text book and lectures on computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. “How do you maintain power over entities more powerful than you – forever?” he asked. “We don’t want systems that imitate human behaviour… you’re basically training it to have human-like goals and to pursue those goals. “We’ve sort of got the message and we’re scrambling around trying to figure out what to do,” he said.

Source: The Times May 13, 2023 01:35 UTC