Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control is a 2019 non-fiction book by computer scientist Stuart J. Russell.

Russell begins by asserting that the standard model of AI research, in which the primary definition of success is getting better and better at achieving rigid human-specified goals, is dangerously misguided.

Russell concludes by calling for tighter governance of AI research and development as well as cultural introspection about the appropriate amount of autonomy to retain in an AI-dominated world.

"[1]: 173  Similarly, "behavior" includes any choice between options,[1]: 177  and the uncertainty is such that some probability, which may be quite small, must be assigned to every logically possible human preference.

[4] The same reviewers characterized the book as "wry and witty",[2] or "accessible"[4] due to its "laconic style and dry humour".

[3] Matthew Hutson of the Wall Street Journal said "Mr. Russell's exciting book goes deep while sparkling with dry witticisms".

"[7] By contrast, Human Compatible was criticized in its Nature review by David Leslie, an Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute; and similarly in a New York Times opinion essay by Melanie Mitchell.

[9] A second disagreement was whether intelligent machines would naturally tend to adopt so-called "common sense" moral values.

In Russell's thought experiment about a geoengineering robot that "asphyxiates humanity to deacidify the oceans", Leslie "struggles to identify any intelligence".