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Stuart Russell
UC BerkeleyProfessor
🇬🇧 BritishBorn 1962
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.
Career & education
Current roleUC Berkeley1996-presentProfessor
UC Berkeley1996-presentPreviously
Associate Professor1991-1996
Assistant Professor1986-1991
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations169,001As of Nov 1, '26
citations+3,862Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
With Peter NorvigA textbook covering AI's core ideas, from search and reasoning to learning and robotics.
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell’s argument for AI that learns human preferences and remains open to correction.
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