Stuart Russell panel: the gap between AI capabilities and our tools to control them is widening fast
ghadfield · x · 2026-09-26
A panel at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center with Stuart Russell and Dean Ball is now online. The host notes they disagree on plenty, but share one conclusion: the gap between what AI systems can do and the tools we have to keep them in check is widening fast.
- Focuses on the divergence between AI capability growth and governance/safety tooling
- Worth watching in full for AGI risk and policy discussion.
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