6:30 - 7:30
Discover insights from renowned AI researcher and author De Kai in conversation with Ina Fried as they discuss Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future. Together, they will explore the promises and challenges of artificial intelligence, its impact on our daily lives, and how society can shape a future where humans and AI coexist responsibly.
De Kai's new book Raising AI from MIT Press was named to JPMorgan's legendary Summer Reading List which called it "a new framework for navigating AI’s influence... a must-read". The Next Big Idea Club curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink put it at the top of their Must-Reads. Kirkus Reviews compares it with Jorge Luis Borges and calls it "a deeply human dive into the AI transforming our world" while Literary Hub describes it as "fascinating and mercifully comprehensible". Science magazine calls Raising AI "a bold vision… thought-provoking and a timely wake-up call".
De Kai is the pioneering AI professor who built the web’s first global language translator and invented groundbreaking language models, spawning Google Translate and Microsoft Bing Translator. For his contributions, he was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of its Founding Fellows. De Kai holds joint appointments at Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology and Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute. He is Independent Director of the AI ethics think tank The Future Society, was one of eight inaugural members of Google’s AI ethics council, and is Founder of the nonprofit Empathetic AI Institute.
Ina Fried is the chief technology correspondent at Axios, where she authors the daily Axios AI+ newsletter and offers sharp insights drawn from years of Silicon Valley reporting. Before joining Axios in 2017, she co-founded and served as senior editor at Recode, covering the mobile industry and producing the Code/Mobile conference series. Fried previously reported on mobile at All Things Digital and spent a decade at CNET.
Her career has taken her across continents—and through two genders—covering stories from the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and Bill Gates’s shift from software titan to philanthropist to the 2010 Winter Olympics. A former national board member of NLGJA: The LGBTQI Journalists Association, she is a member of the LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame.
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