Dr. Fei Fei Li: So yes, HAI, Human-Centered AI Institute was co-founded by me and a group of faculty like Professor John Etchemendy, Professor James Landay, Professor Chris Manning back in 2018. I was actually finishing my last sabbatical at Google and it was a very, very important decision for me because I could have stayed in industry, but my time at Google taught me one thing is AI is going to be a civilization of technology. And it dawned on me how important this is to humanity to the point that I actually wrote a piece in New York Times, that year 2018, to talk about the need for a guiding framework to develop and to apply AI. And that framework has to be anchored in human benevolence, in human centeredness. And I felt that Stanford, one of the world's top university in the heart of Silicon Valley that gave birth to important companies from NVIDIA to Google, should be a thought leader to create this human-centered AI framework and to actually embody that in our research education and policy and ecosystem work.
And I felt that Stanford, one of the world's top university in the heart of Silicon Valley that gave birth to important companies from NVIDIA to Google, should be a thought leader to create this human-centered AI framework and to actually embody that in our research education and policy and ecosystem work.