We Are Toast: The AI Expert Who Wrote The Textbook Warns Humanity | Stuart Russell x Steven Bartlett We Are Toast: The AI Expert Who Wrote The Textbook Warns Humanity | Stuart Russell x Steven Bartlett We Are Toast: The AI Expert Who Wrote The Textbook Warns Humanity | Stuart Russell x Steven Bartlett "Unless we figure out how to guarantee that AI systems are safe, we're toast." In this terrifying wake-up call, the man who literally wrote the textbook on Artificial Intelligence reveals why 850+ experts have signed a statement warning of human extinction. This isn't science fiction—it is a mathematical certainty if we continue on our current path. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is being built with a budget 50 times larger than the Manhattan Project, yet safety teams at major companies are resigning in protest. Professor Stuart Russell breaks down the "Gorilla Problem"—how creating something more intelligent than ourselves guarantees we lose control—and exposes the private conversations he’s had with Tech CEOs who compare their own products to Russian Roulette. From the "Midas Touch" alignment problem to the terrifying potential of an AI-engineered catastrophe, this episode explains why a "Chernobyl-scale" event might be the best case scenario to wake the world up. Timestamps: 00:00 - The Extinction Statement: Why 850 Experts Are Panicking 00:44 - The "Gorilla Problem": Making Humans Obsolete 01:09 - The Midas Touch: Why AI Cannot Be Controlled Naturally 01:50 - Would You Press The Button To Stop AI? 04:08 - The "Chernobyl" Scenario: The Disaster We Need? 06:03 - What Tech CEOs Admit In Private (But Won't Say Publicly) 09:53 - Defining AGI: It Doesn't Need A Robot Body To Destroy Us 12:04 - AI's Persuasion Power: "More Access Than Hitler" 13:47 - When Will AGI Arrive? (Predictions from Sam Altman & Elon Musk) 15:28 - The $1 Trillion Race: Bigger Than The Nuclear Bomb 17:20 - Why The Safety Team Left OpenAI Professor Stuart Russell OBE is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the standard textbook used in over 1,500 universities worldwide. He has been named one of TIME Magazine’s most influential people in AI and has spent 40 years researching how to design AI systems that remain under human control. Keywords: Stuart Russell, Steven Bartlett, Artificial Intelligence, AGI, AI Safety, OpenAI, Sam Altman, ChatGPT, Human Extinction, Tech News, Future of Technology, DeepMind, Elon Musk, Robotics, AI Regulation, Existential Risk, Large Language Models, LLMs. Hashtags: #Podcast #StuartRussell #StevenBartlett #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI