Musk v. Altman: Stuart Russell, Musk's only AI expert witness, warned of AI risks but his concerns about AI's existential threats were excluded by the judge
i have no opinion on this guy or his work and also 200 grand for effectively saying “ai is gonna kill us all” makes me feel like i made some bad life choices in my studies
Musk hired the longtime AI safety researcher and futurist Stuart Russell as an expert witness for the lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI. Russell says his rate is $5,000 an hour and that he spent more than 40 hours preparing for the case. That's $200,000
Stuart Russell, a computer scientist at UC Berkeley, takes the stand to testify, direct-examine by Elon Musk's lawyer Steven Molo. He says that the current AI race has a “winner take all” dynamic, in which “whichever company develops AGI first (AI that matches or exceeds human