# Stuart Russell

Record: actor-russell · Type: actor · Edition: 0.19.0 · Evidence cutoff: 2026-09-15

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Dataset pointer: `/map/entities/24`. Reviewed: 2026-09-15.

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## Position context

Status: placed. Kind: person. Evidence clarity: medium. Basis: primary. Implementation: public-advocacy.

Sources used: First-hand material.

Editorial coordinates: x=-50, y=75; x range [-80, -15]; y range [50, 95]. These are layout units, not probabilities.

## /scope

Conditional limits on dangerous frontier development and evidence required before release.

Claim: claim-actor-russell-c863eb4481f44246f08ae770. Annotation: editorial.

[extreme-ai-risks-2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2310.17688v3) · [russell-senate-2023](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/russell-senate23b-statement.pdf)

## /caveat

A coauthored policy proposal and dated testimony support this interpretation. They do not establish a blanket ban or an institutional Berkeley position.

Claim: claim-actor-russell-7186e669fd92b7b9ba3a39d1. Annotation: editorial.

[extreme-ai-risks-2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2310.17688v3) · [russell-senate-2023](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/russell-senate23b-statement.pdf)

## /evidence/0/note

Coauthors conditional development halts pending adequate protections.

Claim: claim-actor-russell-578caeedf4145a5def639275. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: pace · Evidence role: support.

Find the passage: Mitigation

[extreme-ai-risks-2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2310.17688v3)

## /evidence/1/note

His testimony warns that AGI without reliable human control could threaten human survival.

Claim: claim-actor-russell-68bc5b75eec70a6d91339585. Annotation: attributed-summary · Axis: concern · Evidence role: support.

Find the passage: Executive summary

[russell-senate-2023](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/russell-senate23b-statement.pdf)

## /profile/summary

Calls for enforceable safety conditions and warns about loss of human control.

Claim: claim-actor-russell-d3d975f0c6400f4267a85c3a. Annotation: synthesis.

[extreme-ai-risks-2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2310.17688v3) · [russell-senate-2023](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/russell-senate23b-statement.pdf)

## /profile/sections/0/text

His testimony puts the burden on developers to show safety before release. It also discusses present harms; concern about catastrophe does not replace those issues.

Claim: claim-actor-russell-954127e199fcabb1e2a5091b. Annotation: synthesis.

[russell-senate-2023](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/russell-senate23b-statement.pdf)

## Source provenance

### extreme-ai-risks-2024

[Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress (version 3)](https://arxiv.org/html/2310.17688v3)

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russell and coauthors / arXiv · First-hand source (primary) · Published: 2023-10-26 · Updated: 2024-05-22 · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

Read scope is described in the source note.

Read authors, societal-scale risks and governance/mitigation sections of version 3. Coauthorship supports a shared proposal, not identical personal beliefs or a present-day forecast.

No archive check recorded.

### russell-senate-2023

[Written statement for the Senate AI Forum on Risk, Alignment, & Guarding Against Doomsday Scenarios](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/russell-senate23b-statement.pdf)

Stuart Russell / UC Berkeley · First-hand source (primary) · Published: 2023-12-06 · Material last read: 2026-09-15 · Verification: read

Read scope is described in the source note.

Read executive summary and control-risk discussion. The document is dated December 6 and draws on earlier July testimony; the July date is not this document's date.

No archive check recorded.