"#AI is “promising” nothing. It is #people who are promising – or not promising. AI is a piece of software. It is made by people, deployed by people and #governed by people... in terms of urgency, I’m more concerned about ameliorating the risks that are here and now [than by the risks of the techbro SkyNet singularity]."

— Fei-Fei Li, creator of #ImageNet, whose memoir "The Worlds I See" is out now.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/05/ai-pioneer-fei-fei-li-im-more-concerned-about-the-risks-that-are-here-and-now

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’

The Stanford professor and ‘godmother’ of artificial intelligence on why existential worries are not her priority, and her work to ensure the technology improves the human condition

The Guardian