In the mass consciousness, superhuman artificial intelligence is a technological tsunami that threatens not only the economy and human relations, but also civilization itself. The conflict between people and machines is seen as inevitable, and its outcome predetermined. Eminent AI researcher Stuart Russell argues that this scenario can be avoided. In his groundbreaking book, the author explains how humans have already learned how to use AI, ranging from lethal autonomous weapons to manipulating our preferences, and what else it can be taught. If that happens and a superhuman AI emerges, we will face an entity much more powerful than ourselves. How to ensure that a person will not be subject to superintelligence? To do this, Russell believes, artificial intelligence must be built on new principles. Machines should be humble and altruistic and solve our problems, not their own. The reader will learn about what these principles are and how to implement them from this book, which the most authoritative publications in the world have called the main book on artificial intelligence.