Stuart Russell - Personal Homepage

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Stuart Russell is one of the most influential AI researchers working on safety and alignment; this homepage aggregates his research, publications, affiliations, and public talks, serving as a central reference for his work on value alignment and human-compatible AI.

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Homepage of Stuart Russell, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley and founder of the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), one of the most prominent figures in AI safety research. He is the author of 'Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control' and the leading AI textbook 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,' and has been central to formalizing the AI alignment problem around human value uncertainty.

Key Points

•Founder and director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI), a leading academic AI safety research group at UC Berkeley
•Author of 'Human Compatible' (2019), which argues AI systems must be designed to be uncertain about human preferences rather than optimizing fixed objectives
•Co-author of 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,' the dominant AI textbook used globally, shaping how AI is taught
•Has addressed the UN on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and delivered BBC Reith Lectures on AI, influencing policy discourse
•Research spans value alignment, probabilistic reasoning, and the long-term safety implications of advanced AI systems

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Instrumental Convergence Framework	Analysis	60.0
AI Evaluation	Approach	72.0
AI-Induced Enfeeblement	Risk	91.0
AI Model Steganography	Risk	91.0

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Entity	Property	Value	As Of
Stuart Russell	Role / Title	Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Founder of CHAI	Jan 1986
Stuart Russell	Employed By	ksqqi7fyeA	Jan 1986

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# Stuart Russell, OBE, FRS

![](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/photos/russell-uc-unofficial2b.jpg)

[Zoom link for CS294](https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/2209899121)

Distinguished Professor of [Computer Science](http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/), University of California, Berkeley, and

- Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering;

- Professor of Cognitive Science;

- Professor of Computational Precision Health, UCSF;

- and Honorary Fellow of [Wadham College](https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/), Oxford


Mailing address: Computer Science Division

387 [Soda Hall](http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/soda/soda.html)

[University of California](http://www.berkeley.edu/)

Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

Office location: 8040 Berkeley Way West

Office hours: by appointment

Email: please contact my assistant, JP, at jp@humancompatible.ai

- [**Information for prospective MS and PhD students**](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/phd.html)
- [**Information for prospective interns**](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/intern.html)
- [**Research group**](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/rugs.html) (Russell's Unusual Group of Students)

- Research centers and affiliations:
  - [**Center for Human-Compatible AI**](http://humancompatible.ai/) (CHAI)

  - [**Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public**](https://kavlicenter.berkeley.edu/) (KCESP)

  - [**Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research**](http://bair.berkeley.edu/) (BAIR)

  - [**Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences**](http://icbs.berkeley.edu/) (ICBS)

  - [**AI Institute for Agent-Based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation**](https://action.ucsb.edu/) (ACTION)

  - [**Program in Computational Precision Health**](https://computationalhealth.berkeley.edu/) (CPH)
- [**Research areas**](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/research.html), including publications by area

- [**Publications**](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/publications.html) in chronological order

- [**CV**](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/resume.html)
- **Biography**: [long (350 words)](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/biography.html), [short (175 words)](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/biography-short.html), [very short (75 words)](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/biography-tiny.html)

Other useful pointers:

- [**2021 Reith Lectures: Living With Artificial Intelligence**](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/reith.html)
- [**Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control**](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/hc.html)
- [**Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach**](http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/)
- [Have the machines taken over?](https://youtu.be/jmbfQ3mjHWI) Video of interview by Richard Sargeant, Westminster Abbey, November 20, 2018.

- **[Rationality and Intelligence](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/ijcai95-cnt-talk-colour.pdf)**, slides from the IJCAI 95 Computers and Thought lecture.

- **[Learning in Rational Agents](https

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