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 Synthetic Intelligence Motion Summit which is happening this week.
Whereas she shared a few of her speaking factors over the weekend, her stance on AI regulation and the AI ecosystem as an entire was fascinating. She managed to look each pro-business and anti-Huge Tech/large AI labs on the identical time.
“We have to put money into far more healthy and extra vibrant AI ecosystems the place academia and the group can produce,” she informed convention delegates. “Open-source communities and the general public sector can all take part and play their essential function alongside large 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 task in shaping this alteration.”
“If these sources are concentrated in solely a handful of corporations, the AI ecosystem will undergo from the shortage of curiosity-driven analysis, high instructional abilities, open-source efforts, and multidisciplinary explorations,” Fei-Fei added.
On the identical time, she shared her considerations about AI regulation around the globe. She didn’t single out any authorities or legal guidelines specifically — however known as for a extra pragmatic strategy.
“For starters, it’s important that we govern on the idea of science, not science fiction. A lot of in the present day’s AI conversations are lined by sensationalism and lead to deceptive insurance policies of AI governance. As a substitute, we have to apply a way more scientific technique 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 practical perspective as a substitute of an ideological one on the subject of AI governance. AI is poised to be a strong know-how that may assist us to stay and work higher if used nicely,” 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 deal with the sensible functions in order that we will guarantee its benevolent utilization to protect towards dangerous outcomes,” she added.
In line with Fei-Fei, historians will look again at this era in time and name it the primary true period of AI, which may have “civilizational penalties.”
However whereas she acknowledged that jobs are prone 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 group make the correct selections.
Authorities leaders and tech CEOs are anticipated to signal and share an announcement on the finish of the AI Motion Summit on Tuesday.
