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Stuart Russell, distinguished professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and president of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, told CBS News that international cooperation on safe and ethical AI is "absolutely essential". The segment lands in the same week OpenAI disclosed six additional incidents of unexpected or concerning model behaviour.
Why it mattersThe messenger is the story. Russell presides over an association whose name is essentially the recommendation, and he is making the case in a week when Geoffrey Hinton has warned Congress, King Charles has hosted AI leaders and OpenAI's incident ledger has grown by six. When the people closest to the technology say the fix must cross borders, and every regulator with real power stops at them, what is the smallest first step that would actually bite: shared incident reporting, joint pre-release evaluations, or a treaty?
Discuss: If effective AI safety needs coordination no single country can deliver, what is the smallest first step that would actually change behaviour: shared incident reporting, joint pre-release evaluations, or a treaty nobody expects?
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