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The Man Who Wrote The Book On AI: 2030 Might Be The Point Of No Return! We've Been Lied To About AI!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

DOAC

December 4, 2025

Show Notes

AI Expert STUART RUSSELL, exposes the trillion-dollar AI race, why governments won’t regulate, how AGI could replace humans by 2030,and why only a nuclear-level AI catastrophe will wake us up Professor Stuart Russell O.B.E. is a world-renowned AI expert and Computer Science Professor at UC Berkeley. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering and directs the Center for Human-Compatible AI, and is also the bestselling author of the book “Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control". He explains: ◼️What the “gorilla problem” reveals about our future under superintelligent AI ◼️How governments are outfunded by Big Tech ◼️Why current AI systems already lie and self-preserve ◼️The radical solution he’s spent a decade building to make AI safe ◼️The myth of ‘pulling the plug’ and why AI won’t be that easy to stop []You've Been Talking About AI for a Long Time []You Wrote the Textbook on AI []It Will Take a Crisis to Wake People Up []CEOs Staying in the AI Race Despite Risks []They Know It's an Extinction-Level Risk []What Is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? []Will We Reach General Intelligence Soon? []How Much Is Safety Really Being Implemented []AI Safety Employees Leaving OpenAI []The Gorilla Problem — The Most Intelligent Species Will Always Rule []If There's an Extinction Risk, Why Don't They Stop? []Can't We Just Pull the Plug if AI Gets Too Powerful? []Can We Build AI That Will Act in Our Best Interests? []Are You Troubled by the Rapid Advancement of AI? []Do You Have Regrets About Your Involvement? []No One Actually Understands How This AI Works []AI Will Be Able to Train Itself []The Fast Takeoff Is Coming []Are We Creating Our Successor and Ending the Human Race? []Advice to Young People in This New World []How Do You Think AI Would Make Us Extinct? []The Problem if No One Has to Work []What if We Just Entertain Ourselves All Day []Why Do We Make Robots Look Like Humans? []What Should Young People Be Doing Professionally? []What Is It to Be Human? []The Rise of Individualism []Ads []Universal Basic Income []Would You Press a Button to Stop AI Forever? []But Won't China Win the AI Race if We Stop? []Trump's Approach to AI []What's Causing the Loss in Middle-Class Jobs []What Will Happen if the UK Doesn't Participate in the AI Race? []Amazon Replacing Their Workers []Ads []Experts Agree on Extinction Risk []What if Aliens Were Watching Us Right Now []Can We Make AI Systems That We Can Control? []Are We Creating a God? []Could There Have Been Advanced Civilisations Before Us? []What Can We Do to Help? []You Wrote the Book on AI — Does It Weigh on You? []What Do You Value Most in Life? Follow Stuart: LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3Y5fOos You can purchase “Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control", here: https://amzn.to/48eOMkH The Diary Of A CEO: ◼️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ◼️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ◼️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ◼️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ◼️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ◼️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Pipedrive - https://pipedrive.com/CEO Fiverr: https://fiverr.com/diary and get 10% off your first order when you use code DIARY Stan Store: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. For Official Rules, visit https://DaretoDream.stan.store
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