An AI Leader’s Human-Centered Approach To Artificial Intelligence

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Dr. Fei-Fei Li of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI discusses the promise and peril of the ground-breaking technology.

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0:00.0	Dr. Fay-Fei Lee is a trailblazer in the world of AI. But how does she keep going when things
0:08.8	don't go as planned? Once I identify that audacious quest, it is relatively easy for me to
0:17.4	tune out the other voices.
0:25.6	It's Monday, December 4th, and you guessed it, it's still Science Friday.
0:29.6	I'm SciFri producer Shishana Bucksbaum.
0:33.2	Just about every day, there's a new headline about AI.
0:37.5	It feels sometimes like it's about to upend every part of society.
0:40.0	But how exactly do we get to this moment?
0:43.4	And how worried or excited should we be about the future of AI?
0:52.8	Ira recently sat down with Dr. Fay-Fei Lee to discuss how she came to understand the importance of what she calls human-centered artificial intelligence.
1:00.6	Dr. Fay-Fei-Lee is the of the book, The World's I See, Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the dawn of AI.
1:03.0	She's also the founding director of the Human-Centered AI Institute that's at Stanford
1:07.5	University out there in California.
1:10.0	Dr. Lee, welcome to Science Friday.
1:12.0	Thank you, Ira, for inviting me.
1:14.2	Nice to have you.
1:15.3	Now, I mentioned this in the...
1:16.8	When you say that AI needs to be human-centered,
1:20.7	explain that for us, please.
1:23.1	Well, okay, well, let's begin with what AI is.
1:26.5	AI is a piece of tool. I know it's a very intricate
1:30.6	and intriguing piece of tool that humans have made, and I do believe this is a piece of tool
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