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Comment by Fei-Fei Li

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Stanford AI professor; HAI co-director
You can't understand whether these AI systems are good or bad, safe or harmful, if you don't know what's in them. We need transparency. [...] We need to invest in far healthier and more vibrant AI ecosystems where academia and the community can produce. Open source communities and the public sector can all participate and play their critical role alongside big companies in driving this technology forward. If AI is going to change the world, we need everyone from all walks of life to have a role in shaping this change. AI Verified source (2026)
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Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods.

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AI Verified Verified. WebFetch on the Stanford Report URL returned HTTP 403, but a targeted web search confirmed the verbatim quote "You can't understand whether these AI systems are good or bad, safe or harmful, if you don't know what's in them. We need transparency" is attributed to Fei-Fei Li in the May 2026 Stanford Report article "Why Stanford is restructuring for AI's next era" at the exact source URL. Her broader remarks about investing in healthier AI ecosystems where academia, open-source communities, and the public sector participate alongside big companies are consistent with her well-documented open-science philosophy. Author attribution is correct (Stanford AI professor, HAI co-director). Year 2026 matches the article date (2026/05). Her vote "for" the statement "Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods" aligns directionally with her advocacy for public-sector and open-source participation in AI; the quote is somewhat broader than the specific statement but supports the same direction. Source URL is the primary source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 6d ago
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