Wed November 12, 2025
Author Talk: Author De Kai in conversation with Axios' Ina Fried
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Join renowned AI researcher and author De Kai in conversation with Ina Fried as they discuss "Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future." Together, they explore the promises and challenges of AI, its impact on our daily lives and how society can shape a future where humans and AI coexist responsibly.
De Kai is the pioneering AI professor who built the web's first global language translator and invented groundbreaking language models, spawning Google Translate and Microsoft Bing Translator. For his contributions, he was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of its Founding Fellows. De Kai holds joint appointments at Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology and Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. He is Independent Director of the AI ethics think tank The Future Society, was one of eight inaugural members of Google's AI ethics council and is Founder of the nonprofit Empathetic AI Institute.
Ina Fried is the chief technology correspondent at Axios, where she authors the daily Axios AI+ newsletter and offers sharp insights drawn from years of Silicon Valley reporting. Before joining Axios in 2017, she co-founded and served as senior editor at Recode, covering the mobile industry and producing the Code/Mobile conference series. Fried previously reported on mobile at All Things Digital and spent a decade at CNET.
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De Kai is the pioneering AI professor who built the web's first global language translator and invented groundbreaking language models, spawning Google Translate and Microsoft Bing Translator. For his contributions, he was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of its Founding Fellows. De Kai holds joint appointments at Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology and Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. He is Independent Director of the AI ethics think tank The Future Society, was one of eight inaugural members of Google's AI ethics council and is Founder of the nonprofit Empathetic AI Institute.
Ina Fried is the chief technology correspondent at Axios, where she authors the daily Axios AI+ newsletter and offers sharp insights drawn from years of Silicon Valley reporting. Before joining Axios in 2017, she co-founded and served as senior editor at Recode, covering the mobile industry and producing the Code/Mobile conference series. Fried previously reported on mobile at All Things Digital and spent a decade at CNET.
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Presented by San Francisco Public Library
Join renowned AI researcher and author De Kai in conversation with Ina Fried as they discuss "Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future." Together, they explore the promises and challenges of AI, its impact on our daily lives and how society can shape a future where humans and AI coexist responsibly.
De Kai is the pioneering AI professor who built the web's first global language translator and invented groundbreaking language models, spawning Google Translate and Microsoft Bing Translator. For his contributions, he was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of its Founding Fellows. De Kai holds joint appointments at Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology and Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. He is Independent Director of the AI ethics think tank The Future Society, was one of eight inaugural members of Google's AI ethics council and is Founder of the nonprofit Empathetic AI Institute.
Ina Fried is the chief technology correspondent at Axios, where she authors the daily Axios AI+ newsletter and offers sharp insights drawn from years of Silicon Valley reporting. Before joining Axios in 2017, she co-founded and served as senior editor at Recode, covering the mobile industry and producing the Code/Mobile conference series. Fried previously reported on mobile at All Things Digital and spent a decade at CNET.
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De Kai is the pioneering AI professor who built the web's first global language translator and invented groundbreaking language models, spawning Google Translate and Microsoft Bing Translator. For his contributions, he was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of its Founding Fellows. De Kai holds joint appointments at Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology and Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. He is Independent Director of the AI ethics think tank The Future Society, was one of eight inaugural members of Google's AI ethics council and is Founder of the nonprofit Empathetic AI Institute.
Ina Fried is the chief technology correspondent at Axios, where she authors the daily Axios AI+ newsletter and offers sharp insights drawn from years of Silicon Valley reporting. Before joining Axios in 2017, she co-founded and served as senior editor at Recode, covering the mobile industry and producing the Code/Mobile conference series. Fried previously reported on mobile at All Things Digital and spent a decade at CNET.
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