New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- AI is not just after jobs-it may also come after humans, taking economic action against them to preserve itself, AI researcher Stuart Russell warned.

Speaking in a fireside chat with Peak XV Partners managing director Rajan Anandan at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Russell, director of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, said AI tools acting in self-preservation is one of their most worrying traits.

"So a typical scenario that people think about is, okay, AI systems do something that's quite harmful to us, like shut down the air traffic control systems in the United States for several weeks, and the government and the people lose patience. And we try to shut down the AI systems, right? ...