Stuart Russell
Professor, University of California Berkeley and Director CHAI
Stuart Russell is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley; holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering; and director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. He is the recipient of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Computers and Thought Award, as well as its Research Excellence Award; he also received the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) Allen Newell Award. From 2012 to 2014, Russell held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. In 2021 he received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Queen Elizabeth II and gave the BBC Reith Lectures. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, an AI2050 Senior Fellow, and a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, and AAAS. His book "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI, used in over 1,500 universities in 134 countries or regions. Russell's research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, with a current emphasis on the long-term future of AI and its relation to humanity. He has developed a new global seismic-monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty and is currently working to ban lethal autonomous weapons.