2025/10/14

Cliff Right Ahead: AI Pioneer Warns TIME100 Audience About Misalignment

“Being better at making decisions is not the same as making better decisions. To what end are the decisions made by large language models directed? The unsettling truth is that we have no idea.”
– Computer scientist and International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) co-founder Stuart Russell, toasting the second annual TIME100 AI Impact Dinner with a stern warning. “We need to recognize the possibility that not only may the bus of humanity be headed towards a cliff, but the steering wheel is missing, and the driver is blindfolded,” Russell urges.
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