#Stuart Russell

The Berkeley computer science professor who wrote the most widely used AI textbook, who was among the first mainstream AI researchers to engage seriously with the alignment problem, and who has developed the most coherent technical and philosophical framework for building AI systems that are genuinely safe. The intellectual architect of the cooperative AI vision.

The full intellectual story of AI alignment research — from Norbert Wiener's early warnings to the technical work of the current era, from the philosophical foundations to the specific technical approaches. The most important unsolved problem in AI, and the people trying to solve it before it matters most.