Usually, that question is the stuff of hysterically bad journalism. But there is a section of academia that is reflecting on the matter with thoughtfulness and rigor. One such fellow is Stuart Russell ...

Computer scientists agree that artificial intelligence will have a stunning impact on the future of humanity. And more often than not, futurists depict a dystopian outcome – a world where we are at ...

In January, the British-American computer scientist Stuart Russell drafted and became the first signatory of an open letter calling for researchers to look beyond the goal of merely making artificial ...

Late last month, several tech industry leaders, such as Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, penned a letter urging the community to pause AI development. Stuart Russell was one of those who signed the letter ...

Last week Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and more than 16,000 researchers signed an open letter warning against the dangers of autonomous weapons. A top signatory who studies artificial intelligence (AI) ...