Fei-Fei Li joins historian Stephen Kotkin to discuss curiosity and world models
StanfordHAI · x · 2026-10-21
Stanford HAI founding director Fei-Fei Li — ImageNet inventor and World Labs co-founder/CEO — joins historian Stephen Kotkin for a 51-minute Only in America conversation. She discusses her educational journey, finding audacious questions in science, the responsibilities of scientists and truth-seeking, how "world models" will extend generative AI to new domains, and how the US can prepare for AI's transformative potential.
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