
Brian ChristianResearcher
UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Human-Compatible AI
via UC Berkeley
Researcher · Academic

Professor at UC Berkeley
Russell co-wrote Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, a foundational textbook that helped standardize how AI is taught. His later work asks how to build systems whose objectives remain uncertain and corrigible, so they continue to defer to human preferences rather than pursuing a fixed goal at any cost.
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Last editorial review: August 7, 2026