The Latest Breaking News from Stuart Russell

AI Companies Are Warning About Frontier Development. An AI Researcher Says Regulation is Key To Avoid 'Catastrophe.'

Stuart Russell, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley said warnings from top AI executives should be taken seriously.

International Business Times · Sep 21

Altman Matches Anthropic's AI Auditor Pledge While Musk Offers Three-Word Slowdown Backing

OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for slower AI development, though critics doubt whether the industry will adopt broader safety measures.

International Business Times UK · Sep 13

‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown

From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13

Time to show some intelligence on AI

We have a rapidly closing window in which to put guardrails on.

The Canberra Times · Aug 10

Will it take a ‘Chornobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI?

Unsafe AI systems are leading to cyber weapons of mass destruction writes Stuart Russell, a computer scientist known for his contributions to AI

The Guardian - US · Jun 17

The guy who literally wrote the textbook on AI says when it comes to the extinction scenario the human race is cooked: 'Making these systems more capable… doesn't seem like a sensible move'

"The CEO of Google DeepMind expressed very similar concerns: that they were in a race that they couldn't pull out of."

PC Gamer · May 13

AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit

Narendra Modi’s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world’s biggest democracy

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20

Big Tech execs playing ‘Russian roulette’ in the AI arms race could risk human extinction, warns top researcher

Allowing companies free rein on AI is bringing on a new level of existential risk, Stuart Russell argues.

Fortune · Feb 18

AI 'less regulated than sandwiches' and no tech firm has AI superintelligence safety plan, study

Eight leading AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek, do not have credible plans to prevent catastrophic AI risks, a new study shows.

Euronews · Dec 3, 2025

How the global competition to win the AI race is going

Global battle to lead in AI: Regulation, geopolitics, security and the new rules that will determine the future of AI

Euronews · Nov 21, 2025