'Tools don't have independent values — their values are human values': Quote of the day by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on building ethical AI
THE SO WHAT
Framing AI values as human values puts the accountability squarely on your org chart, not your model card. If you’re deploying AI at scale, your ethics posture is now a hiring, training, and incentive design problem more than a model selection problem.
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