Director

Stuart Russell

Professor, Kavli Center Director
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Stuart Russell is a Professor and formerly Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, with a current emphasis on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. In the area of arms control, Russell has developed a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty. He has been active in efforts to ban lethal autonomous weapons,...