AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li Calls for Human-Centered Technology to Solve Problems and Avoid Threats

Fei-Fei Li is an AI pioneer who developed ImageNet, a database that helped spark major advances in computer vision. She calls for "human centered" AI.

Li grew up in China and immigrated to the U.S. as a teen. A high school teacher mentored her and helped her family.

Li earned degrees at Princeton and Caltech. She is now a Stanford professor and co-director of the Human-Centered AI Institute.

Li sees threats from AI like bias and misinformation but believes it can also help solve big problems like disease.

Li says universities can't train the latest AI models. She wants more public sector investment to focus AI on social good.