Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford researcher who additionally based World Labs, was invited to the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday to provide the opening speech on the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit which is going down this week.
While she shared a few of her speaking factors over the weekend, her stance on AI regulation and the AI ecosystem as an entire was attention-grabbing. She managed to seem each pro-business and anti-Big Tech/huge AI labs on the similar time.
“We must spend money on far more healthy and extra vibrant AI ecosystems the place academia and the neighborhood can produce,” she advised convention delegates. “Open-source communities and the general public sector can all take part and play their essential function alongside huge corporations in driving this know-how ahead. If AI goes to alter the world, we’d like everybody from all walks of life to have a job in shaping this modification.”
“If these assets are concentrated in solely a handful of corporations, the AI ecosystem will undergo from the dearth of curiosity-driven analysis, prime academic skills, open-source efforts, and multidisciplinary explorations,” Fei-Fei added.
At the identical time, she shared her issues about AI regulation around the globe. She didn’t single out any authorities or legal guidelines particularly — however known as for a extra pragmatic strategy.
“For starters, it’s important that we govern on the premise of science, not science fiction. So a lot of at this time’s AI conversations are coated by sensationalism and lead to deceptive insurance policies of AI governance. Instead, we have to apply a way more scientific methodology in assessing and measuring AI’s functionality and limitations, which may consensually result in extra exact, actionable insurance policies round it in actuality.”
She additionally warned towards pointless restrictions on AI analysis.
“In flip, this brings me to the second level of embracing a realistic angle as a substitute of an ideological one in terms of AI governance. AI is poised to be a robust know-how that may assist us to stay and work higher if used effectively,” she mentioned.
“So as a substitute of hindering the upstream exploration of analysis of this nonetheless very younger know-how, we must always put extra give attention to the sensible functions in order that we will guarantee its benevolent utilization to protect towards dangerous outcomes,” she added.
According to Fei-Fei, historians will look again at this era in time and name it the primary true period of AI, which might have “civilizational penalties.”
But whereas she acknowledged that jobs are more likely to be impacted by the progress of AI, she additionally mentioned she believes that AI has the potential to “increase and empower us” — assuming, that’s, policymakers, AI corporations, and the analysis neighborhood make the appropriate choices.
Government leaders and tech CEOs are anticipated to signal and share a press release on the finish of the AI Action Summit on Tuesday.
