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The Reith Lectures this year have been an absolutely terrifying dystopian vision of the obliteration of the human race, all delivered in the gentle tones and reasoned arguments of Prof Stuart Russell, an artificial intelligence expert from the University of California. Russell speaks so mildly, he could be a family therapist; though he isn’t, as he said in passing in response to a question from another professor, Rachel Franklin, after his fourth lecture, which went out last week.
