Fei-Fei Li Quotes

A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.'

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

I imagine if you're one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what's possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something's possible it doesn't mean it's going to be good to us.

What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity.

There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence.

Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.

Weaponized AI is probably one of the most sensitized topics of AI - if not the most.

Only by developing a deeper understanding of AI systems as they act in the world can we ensure that this new infrastructure never turns toxic.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

Faced with the profound changes that AI technologies can produce, pressure for "more" and "tougher" regulation is inevitable. Misunderstanding about what AI is and is not, especially against a background of scare-mongering, could fuel opposition to technologies that could benefit everyone. This would be a tragic mistake. Regulation that stifles innovation, or relocates it to other jurisdictions, would be similarly counterproductive.

The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends.

Stability is a reasonable foreign policy goal, but not at the expense of human rights.

If you believe everything you read, you are probably quite worried about the prospect of a superintelligent, killer AI.

Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.

Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included.

The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

The amount of money and industrial energy that has been put into accelerating AI code has meant that there hasn't been as much energy put into thinking about social, economic, ethical frameworks for these systems. We think there's a very urgent need for this to happen faster.

There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

The real problem is not the existential threat of AI. Instead, it is in the development of ethical AI systems.

I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful...With artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.

I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field.