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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? 


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