is a research lab based at uc-berkeley aiming to reorient the field towards beneficial defense through research. the faculty, researchers and ph.d. students are doing pioneering technical research on topics that include cooperative and reinforcement learning, objective functions, human-robot cooperation, value preference alignment, multiagent systems. researchers use insights from computer science, machine learning, decision theory, game theory, statistics as well as social sciences. we are thrilled to have the founder and director, professor stuart russell, here with us this afternoon to talk about his new book, "human compatible: artificial intelligence and the problem of control." this book has been called the most important book on a.i. so far, the most important book i've read in quite some time by daniel conneman, a must read x the book we've all been waiting for by sam harris. stuart russell is known to many of you. he has been a faculty member at berkeley for 33 years. he is also an honorary fellow at oxford. he is the co-author of artificial intelligence and modern approach wh