# Power over More Powerful Minds by Stuart Russell > "How do we maintain power, forever, over entities that will eventually become more powerful than us?" > **— Stuart Russell**, *2023, written U.S. Senate testimony* ## Sources and Context - **Editorial boundary repair:** The previous readable excerpt was "how do we maintain power, forever, over entities that will eventually become more powerful than us?". Its initial capitalization and/or terminal punctuation is now adjusted for standalone reading; no wording or substantive qualification was added. The linked source above remains the publication audit trail. - **Full quotation and context:** [Written statement to the U.S. Senate AI Forum](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/papers/russell-senate23b-statement.pdf) — Russell's own written statement supplies the complete control question and institutional setting. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/Host-Indexed Autonomy|Host-Indexed Autonomy]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Skeuomorphic Interval|The Skeuomorphic Interval]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Control Theory|Control Theory]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/OpenAI Frontier|OpenAI Frontier]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "How do we maintain power, forever, over entities that will eventually become more powerful than us?" — Stuart Russell, 2023, written U.S. Senate testimony https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stuart-russell-power-powerful-minds ```