Fei-Fei Li

For me it's very important to think about AI's impact in the world, and one of the most important missions is to democratize this technology.

If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.

More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in explosive speciation of the animal kingdom. 500 million years later, AI technology is at the verge of changing the landscape of how humans live, work, communicate,and shape our environment.

From the day an idea is conceptualized to the day the technology is built, carried out, and regulated, it's important to have that human awareness.

Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I'm an AI technologist.

I really believe there are no borders for science.

I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.

We will not only use the machines for their intelligence, we will also collaborate with them in ways that we cannot even imagine.

Understanding vision and building visual systems is really understanding intelligence.

I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.

AI will impact every industry on Earth, including manufacturing, agriculture, health care, and more.

If someone has a fantastic biology background, he or she can contribute in AI and health care. AI has many aspects.

I believe in the future of AI changing the world. The question is, who is changing AI? It is really important to bring diverse groups of students and future leaders into the development of AI.

AI is everywhere. It's not that big, scary thing in the future. AI is here with us.

We need to inject humanism into our AI education and research by injecting all walks of life into the process.

Governments can make a greater effort to encourage computer science education, especially among young girls, racial minorities, and other groups whose perspectives have been underrepresented in AI.

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

As nature discovered early on, vision is one of the most powerful secret weapons of an intelligent animal to navigate, survive, interact, and change the complex world it lives in.