On Monday, the university will launch the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, a sprawling think tank that aims to become an interdisciplinary hub.
Fei-Fei Li and John Etchemendy are co-directors at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. By Elizabeth Dwoskin Elizabeth Dwoskin Silicon Valley Correspondent Email Bio Follow March 18 at 7:00 AM PALO ALTO, Calif. — A Stanford University scientist coined the term artificial intelligence. Others at the university created some of the most significant applications of it, such as the first autonomous vehicle.
“I could not have envisioned that the discipline I was so interested in would, a decade and a half later, become one of the driving forces of the changes that humanity will undergo,” said Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer and former Google vice president who is one of two directors of the new Stanford institute. “That realization became a tremendous sense of responsibility.”
“We recognize that decisions that are made early on in the development of a technology have huge ramifications,” said John Etchemendy, a philosopher and former Stanford provost, the second director of the AI institute. “We need to be thoughtful about what those might be, and to do that we can’t rely simply on technologists.”
“The correct answer to pretty much everything in AI is more of it,” said Schmidt, the former Google chairman. “This generation is much more socially conscious than we were, and more broadly concerned about the impact of everything they do, so you’ll see a combination of both optimism and realism.” And there are political ramifications: Recommendation software designed to target ads to interested consumers was abused by bad actors, including Russian operatives, to amplify disinformation and false narratives in public debate.
“The goal is to have resources that will enable Stanford to be competitive,” Manyika said. “If you gave researchers at Stanford access to compute, that will slow down the brain drain quite a bit toward these corporate labs.”
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