AI Pioneer FEI-FEI LI says AI policies must be based on “science, not science fiction”

Fei-Fei Li, founder of Stanford Computer Scientist and startup, is also known as the “God Mother of AI.”Three basic principles for the future of AI policy making” ahead of next week’s AI Action Summit in Paris.

First, Li said that policies should be based on “science, not science fiction.” In other words, policymakers should focus on the current reality of AI, not on the epic future scenario, whether it’s utopia or apocalypse.

In particular, Li said it was important for policymakers to understand that chatbots and copilot programs are “not a form of intelligence with intention, free will, and consciousness,” so they said, “far. You can avoid distractions in the scenario of the sinus and instead focus on “important issues”.

Second, she argued that policies should be “practical, not ideological.” That means that it should be written to “encourage innovation while minimizing unintended consequences.”

Finally, Li said these policies need to empower “the entire AI ecosystem, including the open source community and academia.”

“Open access to AI models and calculators is essential for progress,” she said. “Limiting that creates barriers and slow innovation, especially for academic institutions and researchers who have fewer resources than their private sector counterparts.”