# Turing Was Right to Worry—but Doom Is Not Inevitable by Stuart Russell > "Alan Turing predicted that AGI would result in the machines taking control. I will argue that Turing was right to express concern but wrong to think that doom is inevitable. Instead, we need a new kind of AI that is provably beneficial to humans." > **— Stuart Russell**, *2023, Berkeley talk abstract* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** “Alan Turing predicted that AGI would result in the machines taking control. I will argue that Turing was right to express concern but wrong to think that doom is inevitable. Instead, we need a new kind of AI that is provably beneficial to humans.” - **Editorial repair and evidence:** The poster restores the surrounding sentences from Russell’s authored abstract, identifying Turing’s concern and Russell’s proposed response. [Berkeley Wireless Research Center](https://bwrc.berkeley.edu/how-not-destroy-world-ai-second-thoughts), talk abstract dated May 25, 2023. No timecode is asserted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor|AI Escape Is the Wrong Metaphor]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Alignment Problem|Alignment Problem]] - [[wiki/State-Dependent Catastrophe|State-Dependent Catastrophe]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/AI Coordination Systems|AI Coordination Systems]] - [[wiki/Marsification|Marsification]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Alan Turing predicted that AGI would result in the machines taking control. I will argue that Turing was right to express concern but wrong to think that doom is inevitable. Instead, we need a new kind of AI that is provably beneficial to humans." — Stuart Russell, 2023, Berkeley talk abstract https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stuart-russell-turing-worrybut-not-inevitable ```