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Friday, 13 March 2026

AI expert: We don’t know how AI works

 In an interview last year, AI expert Professor Stuart Russell exposed the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how artificial general intelligence (“AGI”) could replace humans by 2030 and why only a nuclear-level AI catastrophe will wake us up.

All of this for computer programs that humans, including those programming and marketing them, don’t understand. “The kind of AI systems we’re building now, we don’t understand how they work,” he said.

Professor Stuart Russell OBE is a world-renowned AI expert and Computer Science Professor at UC Berkeley. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering and directs the Centre for Human-Compatible AI, and is also the bestselling author of the book ‘Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control’.

During an interview with Steven Bartlett, host of The Diary of a CEO, Prof. Russell explained what the “gorilla problem” reveals about our future under superintelligent AI, how governments are out funded by Big Tech, why current AI systems already lie and self-preserve, the radical solution he’s spent a decade building to make AI safe, and the myth of “pulling the plug” and why AI won’t be that easy to stop....<<<Read More>>>...