The Mishal Husain Show Fei-Fei Li Helped Create AI, Now She Feels the Responsibility
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Nov 21, 2025 
Fei-Fei Li, a renowned Stanford professor and AI pioneer, discusses her journey from China to shaping artificial intelligence. She explains why AI is a 'civilizational technology' and the importance of responsible development amid potential job displacement. Fei-Fei emphasizes the need for educators to adapt and guide future generations in a tech-driven world. With insights on spatial intelligence and the creation of 3D environments, she advocates for democratizing AI while addressing its energy challenges and the importance of timeless human values.
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AI As A Civilizational Technology
- Fei-Fei Li calls AI a "civilizational technology" because it will touch everyone's life, work and future.
- She stresses its scale of impact rather than just spotlight or power.
Language Structures Guided Vision Breakthrough
- Li connected linguistic taxonomies like WordNet to how visual concepts might be organized by humans.
- That insight led her to realize machines need massive, structured datasets to learn visual intelligence.
ImageNet's Scale Shifted The Field
- ImageNet scaled visual datasets from tens of classes to 22,000 classes and 15 million annotated images.
- That dataset jump enabled modern breakthroughs in machine vision and deep learning.
