News Summary

• The Stanford University artificial intelligence leader on why basic science needs more support.
• Fei-Fei Li is a computer scientist at Stanford University whose research focuses on artificial intelligence and computer vision.
• She co-directed the ImageNet project, helped advance modern machine-learning research and serves as founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.
• My optimism is rooted in our system.
• We have a robust social system rooted in democracy and freedom, and this is very important for scientific quests.