Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Throughout human history, technology makes, and also other factors, creates, destroys, morphs, transforms jobs.

But what doesn't change is the need for human prosperity and human dignity.

But what doesn't change is the need for human prosperity and human dignity.

So I think when we think about AI and its impact in jobs, it's important to go to the very core of what jobs are and means and what technology can do.

So I think when we think about AI and its impact in jobs, it's important to go to the very core of what jobs are and means and what technology can do.

So when it comes to, say, human dignity, for example,

So when it comes to, say, human dignity, for example,

I do a lot of healthcare research with AI, and it's so clear to me that many of the jobs that our clinicians and healthcare workers do are part of humans caring for humans.

I do a lot of healthcare research with AI, and it's so clear to me that many of the jobs that our clinicians and healthcare workers do are part of humans caring for humans.

And that emotional bond, that dignity, that respect can never be replaced.

And that emotional bond, that dignity, that respect,

can never be replaced.

What is also clear to me is that American healthcare workers, especially nurses, are over-fatigued, overworked, and if technology can be a positive force to help them take care of patients better, to reduce their workload,

What is also clear to me is that American healthcare workers, especially nurses, are over-fatigued, overworked, and if technology can be a positive force to help them,

to help them take care of patients better, to reduce their workload, especially some of the repetitive, thankless work like constant charting or walking miles and miles a day to fetch pharmacy medicines and all that.

especially some of the repetitive, thankless work like constant charting or walking miles and miles a day to fetch pharmacy medicines and all that.

If those parts of the job, the tasks,

If those parts of the job, the tasks,

can be augmented by machines, it is really truly intended to protect the human prosperity and dignity, but augment human capabilities.

can be augmented by machines, it is really truly intended to protect the human prosperity and dignity, but augment human capabilities.