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Russell is a central figure in mainstream AI safety discourse; his book 'Human Compatible' (2019) and CHAI research are frequently cited in AI alignment discussions, making this biography a useful quick reference for understanding his background and contributions.
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Wikipedia biography of Stuart J. Russell, a prominent British-American computer scientist at UC Berkeley, best known as co-author of 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach' and a leading voice on AI safety. Russell advocates for developing provably beneficial AI systems and has written extensively on the existential risks posed by advanced AI.
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- •Co-authored 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach', the most widely used AI textbook, with Peter Norvig
- •Delivered the 2021 BBC Reith Lectures on AI safety, bringing the topic to a broad public audience
- •Founding director of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley
- •Awarded the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (2022) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- •Key proponent of aligning AI systems with human values through the 'assistance game' framework
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British computer scientist and author (born 1962)
Stuart Russell OBE   FRS Russell in 2019 Born Stuart Jonathan Russell
1962 (age 63–64)
Portsmouth , England Citizenship British; American [ citation needed ] Alma mater University of Oxford (BA)
Stanford University (PhD) Known for Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach Awards
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1995)
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (2022)
AAAI Fellow (1997) [ 1 ]
ACM Fellow (2003)
AAAS Fellow (2011)
Blaise Pascal Chair (2012)
Reith Lectures (2021) [ 2 ]
Scientific career Fields Artificial intelligence [ 3 ] Institutions
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Francisco
Thesis Analogical and Inductive Reasoning   (1987) Doctoral advisor Michael Genesereth [ 4 ] Doctoral students
Marie desJardins [ 4 ]
Eric Xing [ 4 ]
Shlomo Zilberstein [ 4 ]
Other notable students
Nando de Freitas
( postdoctoral researcher )
Nir Friedman
( postdoctoral researcher )
Lise Getoor
( master's student )
Daphne Koller
( postdoctoral researcher )
Website people .eecs .berkeley .edu /~russell /
Stuart Jonathan Russell OBE   FRS (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). [ 5 ] [ 3 ] He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California, Berkeley . [ 8 ] He founded and leads the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley [ 9 ] and the International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (IASEAI). [ 10 ] Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the authoritative textbook of the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries. [ 11 ]
Education and early life
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Russell was born in Portsmouth , England, and attended St Paul's School, London . He studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford , and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in 1982. He moved to the United States to complete a PhD in computer science at Stanford University in 1986 for research on inductive reasoning and analogical reasoning supervised by Michael Genesereth . [ 4 ] [ 12 ] The PhD was supported by a NATO studentship from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council . [ 12 ]
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