International Association for Safe and Ethical AI

But what is, I guess, the hopeful part is that there is work or you're doing work, for example, to counter this.

For example, I know you co-founded the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI.

And I think you're running the International Dialogues on AI Safety.

How is that work going and is it coming together?

This episode was recorded on August 14th, 2026, and asides were recorded on September 16th, 2026.

I met one of today's guests at the 2026 Conference for the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, or ICI.

No, I don't think that's how the acronym should be pronounced, but I also don't know what it should sound like, and that's the pronunciation they use.

Anyways, he told me about a nonprofit he had recently founded, the Human Line Project.

will be next.

Next on Squawk Pod, the AI dilemma with Berkeley professor and president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, Stuart Russell.

Just because we can do something doesn't mean it's in our best interest.

I think it's almost certain that if we continue to invest at the rate we're investing, we will get to machines that are substantially more...

Well, no, probably not.

Our next guest has been sounding the alarm on AI safety and calling for AI regulation.

Stuart Russell is a distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley and the president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI.

And professor, there's a lot I want to talk to you about.

Guessing how and why a superintelligent AI might try and kill humans is futile.

Here's Stuart Russell from the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI.

If you imagine asking chimpanzees how exactly are these humans going to make you extinct, they would have a very difficult time answering because what we do, they don't understand.

The discussion here has to rest on the assumption that once you create something that's much more intelligent than humans, we simply no longer have a say in what happens.