{"id":23548,"date":"2026-06-17T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/will-it-take-a-chernobyl-scale-disaster-for-us-to-regulate-cyber-weapons-of-mass-destruction-stuart-russell\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:37:14","slug":"will-it-take-a-chernobyl-scale-disaster-for-us-to-regulate-cyber-weapons-of-mass-destruction-stuart-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/will-it-take-a-chernobyl-scale-disaster-for-us-to-regulate-cyber-weapons-of-mass-destruction-stuart-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"Will it take a \u2018Chernobyl-scale disaster\u2019 for us to regulate cyber weapons of mass destruction? | Stuart Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unrestrained development of unsafe AI systems is leading to intolerable risks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Stuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to AI and a new Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The AI company Anthropic has been making major headlines recently. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jun\/01\/anthropic-ai-ipo\">trillion-dollar IPO plan<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/anthropic-pentagon-lawsuit\">blood feud with secretary of defense Pete Hegseth<\/a> have attracted much attention, but two other events may be even more consequential.<\/p>\n<p>In early June, the company posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/institute\/recursive-self-improvement\">article<\/a> describing early signs of recursive self-improvement (RSI), a process in which an AI system devises ways to increase its own intelligence, leading to a greater ability to improve itself, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Russell is a distinguished professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.berkeley.edu\/\">computer science<\/a> at University of California, Berkeley, the president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence and a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/17\/anthropic-ai-rsi-fable\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/49c4f91f694764aefd38cd921cf913d269a233ee\/625_0_3750_3000\/master\/3750.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=df870a35a1efba6e962666389ab35a52\" title=\"Will it take a \u2018Chernobyl-scale disaster\u2019 for us to regulate cyber weapons of mass destruction? | Stuart Russell\" \/>Unrestrained development of unsafe AI systems is leading to intolerable risks<br \/>\nStuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to AI and a new Guardian US columnist<br \/>\nThe AI company Anthropic has been making major headlines recently. Its trillion-dollar IPO plan and its blood feud with secretary of defense Pete Hegseth have attracted much attention, but two other events may be even more consequential.<br \/>\nIn early June, the company posted an article describing early signs of recursive self-improvement (RSI), a process in which an AI system devises ways to increase its own intelligence, leading to a greater ability to improve itself, and so on.<br \/>\nStuart Russell is a distinguished professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley, the president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence and a Guardian US columnist Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unrestrained development of unsafe AI systems is leading to intolerable risks Stuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to AI and a new Guardian US columnist The AI company Anthropic has been making major headlines recently. Its trillion-dollar IPO plan and its blood feud with secretary of defense Pete Hegseth have attracted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/will-it-take-a-chernobyl-scale-disaster-for-us-to-regulate-cyber-weapons-of-mass-destruction-stuart-russell\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will it take a \u2018Chernobyl-scale disaster\u2019 for us to regulate cyber weapons of mass destruction? | Stuart Russell<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}