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Fei-Fei Li

What Fei-Fei Li thinks about motivation

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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. Our readingThe worst outcome of AI for young people is that it takes away their agency and their motivation to learn.

    Their wordsThe absolute bad outcome is that our young generation, their agency and human level motivation of learning and living is taken away by tools. So doom scrolling, passive watching of shorts, all this are not helping agency, human agency.

    ↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 15th of 21 in this recording

  3. Our readingDenying students AI because you fear they will cheat is its own harm, as bad as letting the tool take their motivation away.

    Their wordsThe other kind of danger is in the name of agency and and uh and motivation the tools are denied to our students because we're worried you cheat or worry you only got your answer from Chad GBT. That is very bad as well

    ↗Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Liyoutube.com 17th of 21 in this recording