Fei-Fei Li

“For all the young women I work with and the generations of girls to come, I'm okay now accepting this title,”

“We're used to even disagreement, and I think that's healthy. A topic as profound and impactful as AI requires a lot of healthy debate and public discourse.”

“Some of you might know that I have been vocal about my concerns about this bill [SB 1047], which was vetoed, but right now I’m thinking deeply, and with a lot of excitement, to look forward,”

“I come from academic AI and have been educated in the more rigorous and evidence-based methods, so I don’t really know what all these words mean,”

“I frankly don’t even know what AGI means. Like people say you know it when you see it, I guess I haven’t seen it.”

“I was very flattered, or honored, that Governor Newsom invited me to participate in the next steps of post-SB 1047.”

“I absolutely respect that. I think, intellectually, we should talk about all this. But if you ask me as an AI leader… I feel there are other risks that are what I would call catastrophic risks to society that are more pressing and urgent,”

“This moment in AI is an inflection moment,”

“Because of that, it impacts our world in a more profound way,”

“It takes people to call out the imperfections of ImageNet and to call out fairness issues. This is why we need diverse voices,”

“Our collective understanding of the role data plays is so much more sophisticated now… compared to 2009, when we were the first to call out the importance of data,”