Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Preserving agency in the age of automation, prompting as the new Socratic method, and why we must support teachers before students.

With Dr. Fei-Fei Li

"The biggest thing humanity never learns is the older generation lamenting about the future generation as if the future generation doesn't know anything. They're rude. They're forgetting the past. But if you look at arc of history, of humanity, by and large, we advance for the better." — Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Dr. Fei-Fei Li, on the episode

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is a professor at Stanford and a pioneer in computer vision who helped launch the modern AI era with ImageNet. She argues that the public discourse around AI is skewed toward either extreme doomerism or naive utopianism, both of which strip humans of their agency. The actual operating system underneath her work is human-centered augmentation, where technology serves to enhance learning, health, and creativity rather than replace them. This protocol pulls from her insights on how to maintain motivation, how to use prompting as a learning tool, and why supporting educators is the single most important lever for a healthy AI future.