Dealing with the genie

Stuart Russell is a new columnist for the Guardian and one of those rare individuals who is a highly competent scientist with a strong sense of social responsibility and to judge from wikipedia, he seems to know what he’s talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell

Let’s hope he can help us find ways to control the AI genie as it grows more dangerous every day. As he puts it in his first column:

“The kind of regulation we need is not new: a licensing regime that requires a minimum safety standard before a system can be built and released. This is how we handle nuclear power, airplanes, buildings, elevators, hairdressers and sandwich makers. Is it too much to ask of trillion-dollar AI corporations, who claim to be building the most dangerous technology in history?”

Here’s the whole article:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/17/anthropic-ai-rsi-fable

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