The pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing once said a machine can be thought to have achieved human-level intelligence when we can\u2019t tell it\u2019s a machine, a moment we seem to have arrived at. It\u2019s a breakthrough that has inspired a lot of fear. Yet the biggest challenge of A.I. isn\u2019t what the machines are thinking of us, according to Stuart J. Russell, one of the foundational figures of modern A.I. and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. It\u2019s the way we have been thinking about these thinking machines.<\/p>\n
Since the 1990s, Russell has been saying that the technology was both an opportunity and a threat\u2014and that a relatively straightforward change in approach would maximize the benefits while reducing the risk. No one much listened. Perhaps Hollywood had lulled us into believing that runaway machine intelligence was, well, just the stuff of science fiction. Or maybe, in a world overloaded with impending doom, we just couldn\u2019t make mental space for one more threat. (The plural of apocalypse is apocalypses, Alexa told me, adding, \u201cThat\u2019s a fun question.\u201d) Then ChatGPT arrived\u2014followed by Claude, Google Gemini, and a swarm of others\u2014and Russell\u2019s warnings were suddenly being heard by everyone from Donald Trump to Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing once said a machine can be thought to have achieved human-level intelligence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[405,15942,18481,7537,66430,31002,580,182,625,66431,66432,38107,1430,66433,26165,353,157,66434,16217,18451,1671],"class_list":["post-133702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-ai-agents","tag-alan-turing","tag-alexa","tag-artificial-intelligence-agents","tag-artificial-intelligence-a-modern-approach","tag-berkeley","tag-chatgpt","tag-claude","tag-donald-trump","tag-dulwich-picture-gallery","tag-f-scott-fitzgerald","tag-fable-5","tag-google-gemini","tag-human-compatible-artificial-intelligence-and-the-problem-of-control","tag-leo-xiv","tag-mythos","tag-openai","tag-peter-norvig","tag-stuart-russell","tag-university-of-california","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}