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Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

Stuart Russell

"The most important book on AI this year." In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and human relationships, but civilization itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as inevitable and its outcome all too pr...

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Modern Wisdom

The hosts repeatedly highlighted the book as an essential, informative work on AI, describing it as a great and definitive textbook that explained how algorithms interact with humans. It was recommended by several guests as a key reference for understanding AI control and pro‑human design. The overall tone was strongly positive, indicating it was highly recommended for listeners interested in the subject.

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Episode: #967 - Jeffrey Katzenberg & Hari Ravichandran - Ho...

They said it was a great book about AI that they had read and found informative.

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There's a great book, Human Compatible by Stuart Russell.

Episode: #859 - Ana Kasparian - Why Does Everyone Feel So P...

The guest noted that Russell had written a new book called Human Compatible about how algorithms interact with humans.

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He wrote a new book called Human Compatible, where he's talking about how algorithms are interacting with humans.

Episode: #857 - Ryan Long - DEI Wars, Trump's Bible & The M...

The speakers referred to it as a major textbook on artificial intelligence, noting that it had long been considered the definitive AI reference.

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He wrote this book, Human Compatible. So the worldwide textbook on AI may still be the case, but it certainly was for a couple of decades.

Episode: #584 - Dr Gloria Mark - How To Take Control Of You...

The speaker mentioned Stuart Russell's book Human Compatible as a key textbook in computer science that discusses making algorithms more prohuman.

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The thing that I learned from Stuart Russell, guy that wrote Human Compatible, he's also like, it's the textbook when it comes to computer science. I think he's Mr. Algorithms. And he wrote a book called Human Compatible.

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

The book was described as the acclaimed AI safety textbook written by Russell, originally published in 2020 with a new edition released in 2023.

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you've written this incredible book called human compatible artificial intelligence and the problem of control which I think was published in 2020

— Episode: The Man Who Wrote The Book On AI: 2030 M...

Episode: The Man Who Wrote The Book On AI: 2030 Might Be Th...

The book was described as the acclaimed AI safety textbook written by Russell, originally published in 2020 with a new edition released in 2023.

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you've written this incredible book called human compatible artificial intelligence and the problem of control which I think was published in 2020

there's a new edition from 2023

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