De Kai

HKUST

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De Kai is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST and Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute. He is Independent Director of AI ethics think tank The Future Society, and was one of eight inaugural members of Google’s AI ethics council. De Kai invented and built the world’s first global-scale online language translator that spawned Google Translate, Yahoo Translate, and Microsoft Bing Translator.

Summit 2025

Saturday ·

1:30pm

How should we think about how we each individually are teaching AI? Giving us an accessible framework to navigate the enormous impact of AI upon human culture, values, and the flow of information, De Kai shows us that society can not only survive the AI revolution, but also flourish in a new world where we all play our part in a more humane, compassionate, and understanding society — alongside our artificial children.

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