On Risk From Superintelligence, Top AI Expert's Chimpanzee-Nukes Analogy

It is difficult to describe what loss of human control over Artificial Intelligence (AI) may look like because we may not even understand the risk that superintelligence poses, British computer scientist Stuart Russell, one of the world's leading voices on AI, has said. To illustrate his point, Russell said chimpanzees can't understand how humans could make them extinct because they can't even begin to comprehend things like nuclear weapons.In a wide-ranging, exclusive conversation with NDTV's Shiv Aroor on Wednesday, Russell, who is also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, addressed the calls for slowing down AI's progress, expressed his disappointment at US President Donald Trump and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg not agreeing, and spoke about the possibility of an "army of robots" being able to do anything they choose.READ | Trump Has Few Good Options To Slow China's Rise As AI SuperpowerRussell, who co-authored 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach',…