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Dr. Fei Fei Li: belief

16 Nov 2025 Lenny's Podcast The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots, and why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li

“I do believe technology is a net positive for humanity, but I think every technology is a double-edged sword.”

— Dr. Fei Fei Li

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Speaker
Dr. Fei Fei Li
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
16 Nov 2025
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…There's this line, I think, this was when you were presenting to Congress. There's nothing artificial about AI. It's inspired by people. It's created by people, and most importantly, it impacts people. It's not like I think AI will have no impact on jobs or people. In fact, I believe that whatever AI does, currently or in the future, is up to us. It's up to the people. I do believe technology is a net positive for humanity, but I think every technology is a double-edged sword. If we're not doing the right thing as a society, as individuals, we can screw this up as well. You had this breakthrough insight of just, okay, we can train machines to think like humans, but it's just missing the data that humans have to learn as a child.…

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