Stuart Russell
Stuart Russell is a British computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science as well as engineering at UC Berkeley, and an honorary fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.
Books by Stuart Russell
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Peter Norvig & Stuart Russell
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google and Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering at UC Berkeley. It is one of the top-ranked textbooks on AI, according to the Open Syllabus Project.
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell
***🏆 A Five Books Book of the Year ***
“Stuart Russell is in a different grand tradition of worrying about AI, where a superintelligence takes us over and turns us all into fodder or whatever it wants…What I like about Stuart Russell’s book is that it’s terribly clear. I actually disagree with many of the philosophical suppositions that he makes, but he spells them out incredibly clearly. There’s also a really good reason for reading books that you might strongly disagree with, because it can help to further debate. You can work out why you disagree. One of the big dangers of AI—and you can see this with things like Chat GPT—is that it makes us lazy or controls us in too many ways. We really need to stress our human ability to think for ourselves…Stuart Russell is on the side of humans. He’s trying to work out how we can develop AI to make certain that it’s always going to be at least roughly aligned with human values, so that humans are going to be kept at least reasonably happy with whatever it is that the AI is doing. I’m with Stuart Russell, there, I’m afraid: I’m on the side of humans.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Stuart Russell were recommended
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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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The Technological Singularity
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Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books, recommended by Paula Boddington
Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books, recommended by Paula Boddington
Advances in artificial intelligence pose a myriad of ethical questions, but the most incisive thinking on this subject says more about humans than it does about machines, says Paula Boddington, philosopher and author of a recent AI ethics textbook. We first spoke to Paula in 2017—a long time ago in a fast-moving field. This week we caught up with her to find out what’s happened since then and which new books have taken the conversation over ethics and AI further.
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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
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Extreme Economies
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg
The Best Economics Books of 2019, recommended by Diane Coyle
The Best Economics Books of 2019, recommended by Diane Coyle
The urgency of the challenges facing society has led to a wonderful supply of books by leading thinkers on a variety of pressing topics. Economist Diane Coyle, a professor at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, recommends her top five economics books of 2019.
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Chen Qiufan & Kai-Fu Lee -
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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
by Kate Crawford -
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Peter Norvig & Stuart Russell -
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
by Pedro Domingos -
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by Nick Bostrom
The best books on Artificial Intelligence, recommended by ChatGPT
The best books on Artificial Intelligence, recommended by ChatGPT
Normally at Five Books we ask experts to recommend the best books in their field and talk to us about them in an interview, either in person, by phone or via Zoom. In January 2023, we asked the AI bot, ChatGPT, to recommend books to us on the topic of AI. Being an AI doesn’t necessarily make the chatbot an expert on AI books, but we thought it might have some ideas. This week we caught up with ChatGPT to find out if there were any new AI books it wanted to recommend in the year since we spoke. Read more nonfiction book recommendations on Five Books
