Expert warns advances in AI mirrors research that led to nuclear weapons

He says AI systems could have objectives misaligned with human values

Companies and the military could allow this to get a technological edge

He urges the AI community to put human values at the centre of their work 

Professor Russell, who is a researcher at the University of California in Berkeley and the Centre for the study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University, compared the development of AI to the work that was done to develop nuclear weapons.