Die Stanford-Wissenschaftlerin Fei-Fei Li spricht darüber, wie man Maschinen beibringt, wie Menschen zu sehen, über das KI-Wettrüsten zwischen den USA und China und darüber, was sie an einer stärker automatisierten Zukunft beunruhigt.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-fei-fei-li-weekend-interview/
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*Editor-at-Large Mishal Husain for Bloomberg News*
AI is now so present in our lives that the story of how it came to be so is receding — that is, if we ever absorbed it properly. It’s a tale of scientists laboring for years in the hope of one day making machines intelligent, and breaking down the components of human intelligence in order to get there.
Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li was at the forefront of that quest, which is why she has been called the “godmother of AI.” In 2006 she released her academic work on a visual database containing millions of images, and the idea of training computers to “see” as humans do sparked a wave of AI development.
Behind this breakthrough is a woman with an unusual background, one that plays a role in how she sees the world. Li arrived in the US at age 15 when her parents emigrated from China. She spoke little English and had to adjust academically, socially and financially to a new environment; after her parents set up a small dry-cleaning business to make ends meet, she ran it through her college years.
When Li came into Bloomberg headquarters in London, we talked about her personal and professional history, and I found in her a deep sensitivity. Excited about the potential of technology she’s helped create, she also emphasizes human agency — you’ll find her message to parents towards the end.
[Read the full interview here.](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-fei-fei-li-weekend-interview/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzcxOTY0OSwiZXhwIjoxNzY0MzI0NDQ5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNjJCSTRLSVVQUzQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEMzU0MUJFQjhBQUY0QkUwQkFBOUQzNkI3QjlCRjI4OCJ9.TP_J9x8IHG16v8qm2G58FLgoSHkESzxo7daNULxND_w) You can also [listen to this interview](https://omny.fm/shows/the-mishal-husain-show/fei-fei-li-helped-create-ai-now-she-feels-the-responsibility) and follow The Mishal Husain Show on [iHeart Podcasts](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-mishal-husain-show-300204707/), [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mishal-husain-show/id1845840408), [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/4cJNIDbIEyNyaS7EWVh5Hh) or wherever you get your podcasts.
Ok so up until now we had the “godfather of AI”
who had been branded by posts and the media to oblivion and now here is the “godmother of AI”. Is there a plan to build an AI Family Multiverse? Sorry but this gets tiring very quick and it would be way better to simply mention their names and perhaps their positions and achievements. Sorry for the rant. I deeply respect both of their contributions to this field of science but let’s leave the adjective overload to current LLM prompt outputs.
Godmother of AI? She made (well, cheap, outsourced laborers from Amazon Mechanical Turk did..) a labeled dataset for training image recognition AI.
It’s obviously important but at this point we might as well say the people who provided the processing power for AI training are godparents for AI.
Just a cheap publicity move, that’s all. Disgusting.