What Fei-Fei Li thinks about AI sentience

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

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1. 10 Aug 2026

   Our readingAn AI's sympathy and a friend's are not the same act: one is a learned pattern about what to say, the other rests on having felt the thing.

   Their wordswhen the machine says I'm sorry you're so sick today it's very different from how your friend says it to you because the machine said that because it has learned through pattern when someone tells it I'm sick you should say I'm sorry you're sick instead of I'm so glad you're sick because that data exists.

   ↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 12th of 21 in this recording