23 Computer Vision News Computer Vision News to make sure we can trust the environment we’ll have to coexist in. I want to make sure I can contribute to that. I wanted to do my research so that I could help make these machines a little bit more trustworthy. They’re going to come. The thing is already out of the cage, whatever it is. I just want to make sure that the AI or the machine learning algorithms we develop are in service of humans, not in competition with humans. We’ll make sure that people have security when they’re actually living with them. Maybe they don’t even realize they’re already there. They may be invisible. Like autonomous agents. They don’t have to be real robots. They could just be invisible. They could just be a piece of code that can help you do a lot of things in an autonomous way. Like the chatbot is invisible, right? We have to have people doing this kind of research to make sure that we have security. Were you born in America? No, I was born in China. You are spending the significant adult years of your life in America, but what do you feel your identity is? That’s a hard question. I’ve never really given it very serious thought. I think it’s very natural I came to the US to do a graduate program, to do my PhD, and I got a world-class education with great help from my mentors, my colleagues, and my peer students, but I still feel like I’m not confined by a specific identity. Like, I’m now living in the US, or I was born in China. I feel like the effort to do AI doesn’t have boundaries between countries. It’s more of an international collaborative effort. So many researchers from all around the world come to Vienna for this great ICLR event. We all have a passion for AI and ML, and we’re here, so I don’t think the identity of your country is very important. Did you know America before you arrived there to do your PhD? My knowledge about the US is more from the movies! [Furong laughs] I don’t really have any social ties there. How brave did you need to be across your career to get to where you are today? When you’re young, you’re very brave. You don’t really think too much! [she laughs] I will not ask you to make the same move in another 20 years! [she laughs] Do you have a message for any young scholars reading this? Furong Huang
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