‘It’s Like I Created a Baby’: An AI Matriarch Appraises Her Offspring

In the most overheated technology debate of our time—the societal impact of artificial intelligence—Fei-Fei Li finds herself precariously balanced in the middle.

A Stanford University computer science professor and co-head of its Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Li is neither a Geoffrey Hinton–esque doomer, fretting that the machines we’ve created will slaughter us, nor an unbridled techno-optimist (to use Marc Andreessen’s self-identifier), who equates regulating AI with impeding progress as we know it.

Li is instead an enthusiastic cheerleader …

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