Thousands sign petition to ban AI ‘superintelligence,’ citing threat of human extinction

Joining us now first on CNBC, one of those researchers, UC Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell, also the director of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence. Stuart, thanks for joining us. We obviously could spend a great deal of time on this.We don't have that today. So, as briefly as you can just kind of give me a sense as to your concerns, those who are signing the petition, and what those concerns are rooted in. So I think from a common sense point of view, the concern is ...