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Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

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Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

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