The Reith Lectures

The Reith Lectures

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series. This year, Stuart Russell explores the future of AI and asks: how can we get it right?

Episodes

Title Duration Published Consumed
AI: A Future for Humans 00:58:12 2021-12-22 11:00
AI in the economy 00:58:04 2021-12-15 11:00
AI in warfare 00:57:54 2021-12-08 11:00
The Biggest Event in Human History 00:58:03 2021-12-01 11:00
From Climate Crisis to Real Prosperity 00:57:43 2020-12-23 10:02
From Covid Crisis to Renaissance 00:57:45 2020-12-16 10:02
From Credit Crisis to Resilience 00:57:41 2020-12-09 12:00
From Moral to Market Sentiments 00:57:50 2020-12-02 15:21
Shifting the Foundations 00:42:23 2019-06-18 11:00
Rights and the Ideal Constitution 00:42:22 2019-06-11 11:00
Human Rights and Wrongs 00:42:32 2019-06-04 10:45
In Praise of Politics 00:42:32 2019-05-28 10:45
Law's Expanding Empire 00:57:40 2019-05-21 17:05
War's Fatal Attraction 00:42:17 2018-07-24 10:30
Managing the Unmanageable 00:57:14 2018-07-17 11:00
Civilians and War 00:57:32 2018-07-10 11:00
Fearing and Loving: Making Sense of the Warrior 00:57:27 2018-07-03 11:00
War and Humanity 00:42:22 2018-06-26 10:45
Reith Revisited: Angela Stent on George Kennan 00:14:48 2017-09-29 15:33
Reith Revisited: Grayson Perry on Nikolaus Pevsner 00:15:53 2017-09-28 16:22
Reith Revisited: Brian Cox on Robert Oppenheimer 00:28:11 2017-09-27 15:33
Reith Revisited: Anand Menon on Robert Birley 00:15:42 2017-09-27 12:40
Reith Revisited: Michael Sandel on Bertrand Russell 00:21:29 2017-09-27 12:37
Adaptation 00:57:26 2017-07-11 10:50
Can These Bones Live? 00:49:48 2017-07-04 10:50
Silence Grips the Town 00:49:51 2017-06-27 10:45
The Iron Maiden 00:49:46 2017-06-20 10:50
The Day Is for the Living 00:50:05 2017-06-13 10:50
Culture 00:56:32 2016-11-08 10:10
Colour 00:56:33 2016-11-01 10:30
Country 00:56:32 2016-10-25 10:45
Creed 00:56:34 2016-10-18 12:24
Black holes ain't as black as they are painted 00:29:24 2016-02-02 10:01
Do black holes have no hair? 00:29:52 2016-01-26 17:56
The Idea of Wellbeing 00:42:05 2014-12-16 10:45
The Problem of Hubris 00:41:49 2014-12-09 10:45
The Century of the System 00:41:43 2014-12-02 10:45
Why Do Doctors Fail? 00:41:50 2014-11-25 10:45
I Found Myself in the Art World 00:41:51 2013-11-05 10:40
Nice Rebellion, Welcome In! 00:41:53 2013-10-29 10:40
Beating the Bounds 00:41:55 2013-10-22 10:40
Democracy has Bad Taste 00:42:59 2013-10-15 11:23
Civil and Uncivil Societies 00:57:01 2012-07-10 10:30
The Landscape of the Law 00:53:13 2012-07-03 10:30
The Darwinian Economy 00:52:58 2012-06-26 10:30
The Human Hive 00:53:04 2012-06-19 10:30
Eliza Manningham-Buller: Freedom 00:53:22 2011-09-20 10:30
Eliza Manningham-Buller: Security 00:42:20 2011-09-13 10:30
Eliza Manningham-Buller: Terror 00:42:28 2011-09-06 10:40
Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent 00:42:20 2011-07-05 10:40
Aung San Suu Kyi: Liberty 00:53:38 2011-06-28 10:15
The Runaway World 00:41:54 2010-06-22 10:40
What We'll Never Know 00:41:45 2010-06-15 10:45
Surviving the Century 00:41:52 2010-06-08 10:40
The Scientific Citizen 00:42:49 2010-06-01 10:15
A New Politics of the Common Good 00:42:52 2009-06-30 10:00
Genetics and Morality 00:42:54 2009-06-23 10:00
Morality in Politics 00:42:47 2009-06-16 10:00
Markets and Morals 00:42:53 2009-06-09 10:00
The Body Beautiful 00:52:36 2008-06-24 10:00
American Dreams 00:43:05 2008-06-17 10:00
English Lessons 00:43:02 2008-06-10 10:00
Confucian Ways 00:43:07 2008-06-03 10:00
Global Politics in a Complex Age 00:43:11 2007-05-09 10:00
Economic Solidarity for a Crowded Planet 00:43:06 2007-05-02 10:00
The Great Convergence 00:43:06 2007-04-25 10:00
Survival in the Anthropocene 00:42:57 2007-04-18 10:00
Bursting at the Seams 00:41:59 2007-04-11 10:00
The Power of Music 00:42:09 2006-05-05 10:00
Meeting in Music 00:41:59 2006-04-28 10:00
The Magic of Music 00:41:53 2006-04-21 10:00
The Neglected Sense 00:42:03 2006-04-14 10:00
In the Beginning was Sound 00:42:56 2006-04-07 10:00
Risk and Responsibility 00:42:56 2005-05-04 10:00
Nanotechnology and Nanoscience 00:42:47 2005-04-27 10:00
Innovation and Management 00:42:57 2005-04-20 10:00
Collaboration 00:42:44 2005-04-13 10:00
Technology will Determine the Future of the Human Race 00:42:57 2005-04-06 10:00
I am Right; You are Dead 00:42:47 2004-05-05 10:00
A Quest for Dignity 00:43:02 2004-04-28 10:00
Rhetoric that Binds and Blinds 00:42:42 2004-04-21 10:00
Power and Freedom 00:42:59 2004-04-14 10:00
The Changing Mask of Fear 00:42:59 2004-04-07 10:00
Neuroscience - the New Philosophy 00:42:56 2003-04-30 10:00
Purple Numbers and Sharp Cheese 00:43:04 2003-04-23 10:00
The Artful Brain 00:42:53 2003-04-16 10:00
Synapses and the Self 00:42:53 2003-04-09 10:00
Phantoms in the Brain 00:42:59 2003-04-02 10:00
Licence to Deceive 00:42:58 2002-05-01 10:00
Trust and Transparency 00:42:52 2002-04-24 10:00
Called to Account 00:42:55 2002-04-17 10:00
Trust and Terror 00:42:52 2002-04-10 10:00
Spreading Suspicion 00:42:53 2002-04-03 10:00
New Directions 00:42:38 2001-05-02 10:00
Making Choices 00:42:54 2001-04-25 10:00
Sex and Death 00:43:51 2001-04-18 10:00
Thread of Life 00:42:55 2001-04-11 10:00
Brave Old World 00:42:41 2001-04-04 10:00
Poverty & Globalisation 00:42:58 2000-05-10 10:00
Health & Population 00:43:07 2000-05-03 10:00
Business 00:57:07 2000-04-26 10:00
Biodiversity 00:43:00 2000-04-19 10:00
Governance 00:43:06 2000-04-12 10:00
Democracy: London 00:57:44 1999-05-05 10:00
Family: Washington DC 00:57:49 1999-04-28 10:00
Tradition:Delhi 00:58:01 1999-04-21 10:00
Globalisation:London 00:43:07 1999-04-07 10:00
Can there be an end to war? 00:42:57 1998-05-06 10:00
War And The Individual 00:42:51 1998-04-29 10:00
War and the State 00:42:52 1998-04-22 10:00
The Origins Of War 00:43:34 1998-04-15 10:00
War And Our World 00:43:44 1998-04-08 10:00
An Ordinary Brilliance: Parting the Waters, closing the wounds 00:29:42 1997-03-25 10:00
The War Between The Worlds 00:29:47 1997-03-18 10:00
The Distribution Of Distress 00:29:55 1997-03-11 10:00
The Pantomime of Race 00:29:59 1997-03-04 10:00
The Emperor's New Clothes 00:30:04 1997-02-25 10:00
The World Wide Web 00:28:21 1996-03-05 10:00
A Web Of Words 00:29:12 1996-02-27 10:00
Building the Web 00:29:37 1996-02-20 10:00
A Web Of Deceit 00:27:44 1996-02-13 10:00
A Web Of Worries 00:29:31 1996-02-06 10:00
Cities For A Small Planet 00:29:48 1995-03-12 10:00
London, the Humanist City 00:29:50 1995-03-05 10:00
Sustainable Architecture 00:29:27 1995-02-26 10:00
Sustainable Cities 00:29:45 1995-02-19 10:00
The Culture of Cities 00:27:55 1995-02-12 10:00
Home: our Famous Island Race 00:28:53 1994-03-02 10:00
Cannibal Tales: The Hunger for Conquest 00:28:14 1994-02-23 10:00
Beautiful Beasts: The Call of the Wild 00:28:00 1994-02-16 10:00
Little Angels, Little Devils: Keeping Children Innocent 00:28:57 1994-02-09 10:00
Boys Will Be Boys 00:28:18 1994-02-02 10:00
Monstrous Mothers 00:27:51 1994-01-26 10:00
Gods That Always Fail 00:29:26 1993-07-28 10:00
Speaking Truth To Power 00:29:16 1993-07-21 10:00
Professionals and Amateurs 00:29:27 1993-07-14 10:00
Intellectual Exiles 00:29:47 1993-07-07 10:00
Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 00:29:46 1993-06-30 10:00
Representations of the Intellectual 00:29:16 1993-06-23 10:00
The Evolution of Utopia 00:29:32 1991-12-18 10:00
Cousins Under the Skin 00:29:39 1991-12-11 10:00
The Economics of Eden 00:29:35 1991-12-04 10:00
In God's Image 00:29:42 1991-11-27 10:00
Change or Decay 00:29:25 1991-11-20 10:00
A Message From Our Ancestors 00:29:51 1991-11-13 10:00
A Community of Communities 00:29:19 1990-12-19 10:00
Fundamentalism 00:29:08 1990-12-12 10:00
Paradoxes & Pluralism 00:29:20 1990-12-05 10:00
The Family 00:27:45 1990-11-28 10:00
The Demoralisation of Discourse 00:29:32 1990-11-21 10:00
The Environment of Faith 00:28:40 1990-11-14 10:00
Towards the Light 00:29:36 1989-12-20 10:00
Remembering the Somme 00:28:01 1989-12-13 10:00
Highways of Freedom 00:28:09 1989-12-06 10:00
The Golden Fleece 00:27:26 1989-11-29 10:00
The Time Traveller 00:29:19 1989-11-22 10:00
The Paradox of Gorbachev's Reforms 00:29:39 1988-12-13 10:00
Religion and the Atheist State 00:29:24 1988-12-06 10:00
The Flawed Melting Pot 00:29:28 1988-11-29 10:00
A Civil Society In Embryo 00:29:15 1988-11-22 10:00
The Return Of The Repressed 00:29:02 1988-11-15 10:00
A Great Power in Crisis 00:29:21 1988-11-08 10:00
Stand Up and Be Misunderstood 00:27:39 1987-12-27 10:00
Let the People Sing 00:26:53 1987-12-16 10:00
A Licence for Licence 00:29:15 1987-12-09 10:00
Past and Present 00:28:30 1987-12-02 10:00
An Orchid In the Field of Technology 00:28:13 1987-11-25 10:00
The Old Warhorse 00:28:48 1987-11-18 10:00
Lions Under the Throne 00:29:03 1986-12-10 10:00
An Enormous Power 00:29:43 1986-12-03 10:00
Trusting the Judges 00:29:23 1986-11-26 10:00
Hard Cases and Bad Law 00:29:09 1986-11-19 10:00
The Clanking of Medieval Chains 00:29:03 1986-11-12 10:00
The Chill and Distant Heights 00:29:34 1986-11-05 10:00
Markets, States & Economics 00:29:44 1985-12-11 10:00
DIYE plus the Lobbies: Counting the Cost 00:29:39 1985-12-04 10:00
Orthodox Economists versus the People 00:29:26 1985-11-27 10:00
Needs, Centralism & Autarchy 00:29:44 1985-11-20 10:00
Soap Opera in High Places 00:29:32 1985-11-15 10:00
The Power of Do-it-Yourself Economics 00:28:53 1985-11-06 10:00
The Freedom of the Will 00:29:43 1984-12-12 10:00
A Changing Reality 00:29:46 1984-12-05 10:00
Walk to Patagonia 00:29:50 1984-11-28 10:00
Grandmother Knew Best 00:29:54 1984-11-21 10:00
Beer Cans & Meat Machines 00:29:43 1984-11-14 10:00
A Froth on Reality 00:29:46 1984-11-07 10:00
Participation - the Sole Bond 00:29:28 1983-12-14 10:00
Opening Up Government. 00:29:35 1983-12-07 10:00
Critical Opposition - Part of the Policy 00:29:10 1983-11-30 10:00
The Privileged Adviser 00:29:12 1983-11-23 10:00
Cabinet: Directorate or Directory? 00:29:30 1983-11-16 10:00
United Thoughts & Counsels 00:29:30 1983-11-09 10:00
A Talent For Conviction 00:29:01 1982-12-15 10:00
The Anxious Object 00:29:19 1982-12-08 10:00
A Cherishing Bureaucracy 00:29:38 1982-12-01 10:00
The Parade of Ideas 00:28:42 1982-11-24 10:00
The Domestication of Outrage 00:29:30 1982-11-17 10:00
The Zealots of Explanation 00:29:22 1982-11-10 10:00
Who's Moving the Goal Post? 00:29:28 1981-12-16 10:00
Not For the Sake of Their Blue Eyes 00:29:36 1981-12-09 10:00
Conflicts of the Third World 00:29:35 1981-12-02 10:00
Shadow Over Europe 00:29:40 1981-11-25 10:00
Plausibility and Horror 00:29:09 1981-11-18 10:00
If You Knows of a Better 'ole... 00:29:11 1981-11-11 10:00
Let's Kill All the Lawyers 00:29:10 1980-12-10 10:00
The Doors of Mental Illness 00:29:13 1980-12-03 10:00
If I Were You, Mrs B 00:29:39 1980-11-26 10:00
Suffer the Little Children 00:29:33 1980-11-19 10:00
The New Magicians 00:28:47 1980-11-12 10:00
The Rhetoric of Medicine 00:29:00 1980-11-05 10:00
In Search of Pax Africana 00:29:48 1979-12-12 10:00
Patterns of Identity 00:29:56 1979-12-05 10:00
The Burden of Underdevelopment 00:29:33 1979-11-28 10:00
A Clash of Cultures 00:29:42 1979-11-21 10:00
The Cross of Humiliation 00:29:43 1979-11-14 10:00
The Garden of Eden in Decay 00:29:54 1979-11-07 10:00
The In-Dwelling Christ 00:27:16 1978-12-06 10:00
Not Peace, but a Sword 00:28:26 1978-11-29 10:00
The Imperialism of Political Religion 00:26:54 1978-11-22 10:00
A New Commandment - Human Rights 00:26:59 1978-11-15 10:00
Ministers of Change 00:26:33 1978-11-08 10:00
The Political Christ 00:27:29 1978-11-01 10:00
The Social Order 00:28:30 1978-02-15 10:00
Between the Generations 00:28:42 1978-02-08 10:00
The Rise of Party 00:29:19 1978-02-01 10:00
The Reconstitution of Status 00:28:29 1978-01-25 10:00
Class-Ridden Prosperity 00:29:35 1978-01-18 10:00
To Know Ourselves 00:29:23 1978-01-11 10:00
Madness and Morality 00:29:40 1976-12-15 10:00
A Burning Fire 00:29:56 1976-12-08 10:00
A Child of the Moment 00:29:55 1976-12-01 10:00
An Image of Truth 00:29:42 1976-11-24 10:00
Chang Tzu and the Butterfly 00:29:47 1976-11-17 10:00
The Divinest Part of Us 00:28:49 1976-11-10 10:00
The Birth of Exploration 00:29:18 1975-11-12 10:00
On Difference 00:29:18 1974-12-04 10:00
Justice Without Bondage 00:29:33 1974-11-27 10:00
The Liberal Option 00:29:29 1974-11-20 10:00
From Expansion to Improvement 00:29:10 1974-11-13 10:00
The Search For A New Order 00:28:48 1973-12-19 10:00
The Troubled Giant 00:28:33 1973-11-28 10:00
Wanted: An Instrument For Crisis Management 00:28:28 1972-12-12 10:00
From Technocracy to Democracy 00:28:31 1972-12-05 10:00
European Foreign Policy Towards Asia & the Soviet Bloc 00:28:42 1972-11-28 10:00
The American Connection 00:28:16 1972-11-21 10:00
The French Spirit and the British Intruder 00:28:34 1972-11-14 10:00
Melting Pot or Bag of Marbles? 00:28:26 1972-11-07 10:00
A Common Ground 00:28:41 1971-12-21 10:00
The Loss of the Stable State 00:43:19 1970-11-15 09:00
Where Does Responsibility Lie? 00:28:55 1969-12-14 09:00
The Forward Look in Conservation 00:28:50 1969-12-07 09:00
Global Changes - Actual and Possible 00:28:00 1969-11-30 09:00
The Technological Exponential 00:29:01 1969-11-23 09:00
Impact of Man on His Environment 00:28:58 1969-11-16 09:00
Man and Nature 00:29:08 1969-11-09 09:00
The United States of the World 00:29:51 1968-12-01 09:00
'Only Connect...' 00:30:23 1967-12-17 10:00
Ourselves and Others 00:31:07 1967-11-26 10:00
The Role of the State 00:29:10 1966-12-04 10:00
Economic Meetings 00:28:46 1965-11-28 10:00
Contemporary Racial Moods 00:29:37 1965-11-21 10:00
Industrial And Economic Consequences 00:24:22 1964-12-13 10:00
The Fulfilment of Lives 00:28:51 1963-12-01 10:00
Vicissitudes of Adolescence 00:28:27 1962-11-25 10:00
The Problem of White Settlement 00:29:19 1961-12-07 10:00
African Nationalism 00:29:19 1961-11-23 10:00
The Mechanization of Art 00:28:49 1960-12-11 10:00
The Fear of Knowledge 00:29:06 1960-12-04 10:00
Future of Man 00:29:16 1959-12-20 10:00
The Origin of the Universe 2 00:32:07 1958-12-14 10:00
The Origin of the Universe 1 00:29:18 1958-11-07 10:00
The Military Problem 00:29:09 1957-12-01 10:00
The Problem of Eastern and Central Europe 00:30:14 1957-11-24 10:00
Science and Education 00:28:37 1956-12-16 10:00
Industrial Science 00:15:17 1956-12-09 10:00
Architecture and Planning: The Functional Approach 00:29:20 1955-11-27 10:00
Constable and the Pursuit of Nature 00:28:32 1955-11-20 10:00
Blake and the Planing Line 00:28:34 1955-11-13 10:00
Perpendicular England 00:29:08 1955-11-06 10:00
Reynolds and Detachment 00:28:48 1955-10-30 10:00
Hogarth and Observed Life 00:29:02 1955-10-23 10:00
The Geography of Art 00:28:11 1955-10-16 10:00
The Atlantic Bridge 00:30:25 1954-11-21 10:00
The Sciences and Man's Community 00:30:30 1953-12-20 10:00
The Psychology of Encounters 00:30:35 1952-12-14 10:00
British Rule In India 00:29:05 1951-12-02 10:00
Individual and Social Ethics 00:28:44 1949-01-30 10:00
Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres 00:29:30 1949-01-23 10:00
The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature 00:28:45 1949-01-16 10:00
The Role of Individuality 00:29:14 1949-01-09 10:00
Social Cohesion and Government 00:28:58 1949-01-02 10:00
Social Cohesion and Human Nature 00:27:59 1948-12-24 10:00