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Fei-Fei Li

Stanford AI professor; HAI co-director

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.

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AI Verified The provided TechCrunch page includes the exact three-sentence quote and explicitly attributes it to Fei-Fei Li (“she told conference delegates”). The same page shows the publication date as February 10, 2025, so the stored author, date, source URL, and quote text match. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/10/ai-pioneer-fei-fei-li-says-governments-should-embrace-a-pragmatic-attitude-instead-of-an-ideological-one-on-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago

Disputed The quote is not authentic as presented. The May 4, 2026 Stanford article does contain the line about not knowing whether AI systems are good or bad and needing transparency, but it is spoken by James Landay, not Fei-Fei Li, in the section where Landay is answering. ([news.stanford.edu](https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/05/james-landay-fei-fei-li-john-hennessy-hai-interview)) The rest of the passage (beginning "We need to invest in far healthier and more vibrant AI ecosystems...") appears in a TechCrunch report quoting Fei-Fei Li at the AI Action Summit on February 10, 2025, not in the Stanford URL. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/10/ai-pioneer-fei-fei-li-says-governments-should-embrace-a-pragmatic-attitude-instead-of-an-ideological-one-on-ai/)) So this is a stitched-together quote from different speakers/sources and is misattributed to Li in 2026. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago

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 · 26d ago

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