Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell ISBN 0241335205
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Stuart Russell ISBN 0241335205
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This book by Stuart Russell has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Lex Fridman. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Michael Littman, Steven Bartlett. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-12-13 and the most recent from 2025-12-04. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
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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.”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Stuart Russell: UC Berkeley professor in his 40th year, author of the standard AI textbook 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach', OBE recipient, and a Time most-influential voice in AI. He has spent over 50 years in AI and now focuses on building provably safe, controllable AI systems. AI pioneer Stuart Russell warns that the race to build superintelligence is a reckless gamble with human extinction.
“i think i think stewart's book did a remarkably good job like a just a celebratory good job at describing ai technology and sort of how it works”— Michael Littman
The guest here is Michael Littman: Computer science professor at Brown University researching and teaching machine learning, reinforcement learning, and AI. A prolific maker of computer-science parody songs and a former TurboTax commercial cameo, he has had a front-row seat to RL's history since the 1980s. Brown professor Michael Littman on reinforcement learning, why he is unmoved by AI doom, AlphaGo, and the social subtlety of self-driving cars.
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