--- title: "Stuart Russell: everything in the record, dated and linked" description: "Stuart Russell, Professor of computer science. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-stuart-russell source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 updated: 2026-11-11T12:27:15.376Z keywords: Stuart Russell, Stuart Russell AI, Stuart Russell quotes, Stuart Russell statements, Stuart Russell on AI, what Stuart Russell said about AI, AI leaders, AI news --- > Stuart Russell, Professor of computer science. Every dated statement and action, linked to its source, plus live headlines naming them. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/person-stuart-russell The record behind this page is public and citable. Every figure has a dated row behind it, and the rows are at https://monitor.paciva.ai/api/ledger # Stuart Russell [Image credit](https://monitor.paciva.ai/about#credit-stuart-russell) Professor of computer science · University of California, Berkeley ## Why now No headline this week names Stuart Russell. ## What they said 5 dated items: statements, actions and media appearances by Stuart Russell, linked to their sources and ordered newest first. - Oct 22, 2025 In the record "It's simply a proposal to require adequate safety measures for a technology that, according to its developers, has a significant chance to cause human extinction. Is that too much to ask?" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2025/10/22/prince-harry-meghan-markle-wozniak-bannon-ban-superintelligence-letter) - Aug 26, 2025 In the record "It's as if everyone in the world is getting onto a brand-new kind of airplane that has never been tested before" [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [TIME](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305869/stuart-russell/) - Aug 5, 2024 In the record "Testing is just the wrong way of thinking about this altogether. We need formal verification. We need mathematical guarantees" [Safety & Risk](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-safety) · [Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/ai-policy/breakfast-1-stuart-russell/) - Sep 7, 2023 In the record "The important thing is which happens first? The arrival of real general-purpose AI or figuring out how to make it safe?" [General AI](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-general) · [TIME](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6309044/stuart-russell-2/) - Jul 29, 2023 In the record "How do we maintain power forever over entities more powerful than ourselves?" [Policy & Regulation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/topic-policy) · [techpolicy.press](https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-senate-hearing-on-principles-for-ai-regulation/) [Correct this record](https://monitor.paciva.ai/notes?skind=correction&sctx=Stuart%20Russell#suggest) ## Where they are named ## Stories naming Stuart Russell ## Where the record shows more than one item on a topic Each line is one topic in date order. The Monitor shows the sequence and links every item; it draws no conclusion from it. - Aug 5, 2024 ["Testing is just the wrong way of thinking about this altogether. We need formal verification. We need mathematical guarantees"](https://futureoflife.org/ai-policy/breakfast-1-stuart-russell/) - Oct 22, 2025 ["It's simply a proposal to require adequate safety measures for a technology that, according to its developers, has a significant chance to c..."](https://fortune.com/2025/10/22/prince-harry-meghan-markle-wozniak-bannon-ban-superintelligence-letter) - Sep 7, 2023 ["The important thing is which happens first? The arrival of real general-purpose AI or figuring out how to make it safe?"](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6309044/stuart-russell-2/) - Aug 26, 2025 ["It's as if everyone in the world is getting onto a brand-new kind of airplane that has never been tested before"](https://time.com/collections/time100-ai-2025/7305869/stuart-russell/) ## Nothing on file What a filing or a published statement says about money, employment or affiliation. Each row states the relationship, the date it is filed as of, and the document it comes from. Nothing here says why anyone did anything. No interest on file for Stuart Russell. The Monitor records a disclosed interest only where a filing or the person's own published statement states one. An empty list means none has been recorded, not that none exists. Every political contribution and lobbying registration on this site is also listed together in [the ledger](https://monitor.paciva.ai/#ledger). ## Compare Stuart Russell with someone else Pick a second person and read both records in date order, on one screen.