More than 60 friends—together with activists, researchers, coverage shapers, and technologists—gathered on the St. Regis San Francisco on Thursday night time for a TIME100 Impact Dinner honoring the extraordinary girls shaping the long run of synthetic intelligence.

A quantity of the friends had lately been acknowledged as leaders within the area by their inclusion within the inaugural TIME100 AI checklist, which TIME editor in chief Sam Jacobs described as “a map of the relationships and power centers driving the development of AI.”

TIME CEO Jess Sibley started the night by talking additional in regards to the philosophy behind the TIME100 AI checklist. “We looked at the dangers, the perils, but also the power and the progress. We identified 100 people that weren’t just Sam Altman, and Reid Hoffman, and Elon Musk, but designers and regulators and researchers. You’re going to hear from several of them this evening.”

Here are some of the most important moments of the night time.

Fei-Fei Li reiterates how AI isn’t only for companies

In a June assembly with President Biden, Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li highlighted the necessity for funding in public-sector AI improvement and referred to as for a “moonshot mentality” in addressing this unmet potential.

In her toast, Li reiterated this want, mentioning that in 2022, 32 important machine studying  fashions had been produced in business, whereas solely three had been educated in academia.

However, Li mentioned she was inspired by latest coverage developments. “Our policymakers are starting to engage,” she mentioned. “I’ve never gotten this many phone calls from Washington D.C.”

Anna Makanju is impressed by how individuals are utilizing AI

Anna Makanju, vp of international affairs at outstanding AI firm OpenAI, expressed gratitude for having the ability to contribute to “work on something where I can feel genuine optimism.”

Makanju mentioned that she isn’t a pure optimist, having been raised within the USSR. And the world’s present state of affairs makes it even tougher to be optimistic. But she’s heartened by the various private tales she’s heard of individuals who have been empowered by AI—from a blind colleague who makes use of GPT-4 to navigate the world to an AI-powered app that helps individuals in India overcome language boundaries to entry public companies to a ChatGPT consumer who was capable of determine her son’s uncommon sickness after years of consulting completely different medical doctors.

“It’s not just the technology we’re building—but the ways that it enables us to have access to things that were really previously unimaginable to a lot of people—that makes me so hopeful,” she mentioned. “As well of course being in a room with all of these amazing women.”

Nancy Xu requires a change of narrative

Nancy Xu, founder and CEO of AI-powered recruiting firm Moonhub, urged her fellow friends to develop and undertake AI in ways in which create alternatives for individuals somewhat than taking alternatives away.

“A lot of people think AI is this force that will take away their jobs, and it scares them,” she mentioned. “We have a chance at changing the narrative here—to create a world where people see AI as an engine for opportunity for them, to help them find access to better opportunities, to help them find better jobs, to help them find more fulfilling work.”

Sneha Revanur needs youth to be on the desk

In 2020, in response to California’s Proposition 25, which aimed to exchange money bail with pretrial detention decided by an algorithmic threat evaluation, Sneha Revanur based Encode Justice, a youth-led nonprofit targeted on AI’s impacts.

Now, the 18-year previous Revanur, who this summer season was invited to attend a roundtable dialogue on AI hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris, is seeing broader participation in debates over AI, which she mentioned was once restricted to “people with a very specific set of credentials—like a PhD in computer science or years spent serving on the Hill.”

“The technology that we’re building today, at breakneck speed, will shape the world my generation inherits tomorrow,” she mentioned. “My peers and I are determined to do more than just inherit that world. We’re actively co-creating it.”

Kimberly Bryant stresses human company in shaping the AI revolution

Kimberly Bryant, founder of training nonprofit Black Girls Code, used her toast to make a name to motion, stressing society’s collective accountability to “ensure that [AI] benefits all, especially our marginalized communities.”

“Here’s the thing: we have the power to shape this revolution,” she mentioned. “We can actively work towards identifying and mitigating biases baked into AI algorithms. We can demand transparency and accountability in AI development.”

Sarah Conley Odenkirk attracts classes from the crypto rush

Many have made comparisons between cryptographic applied sciences, akin to NFTs, and AI, as each applied sciences burst quickly onto the scene and have been the topic of a lot breathless hype. But there are vital variations between the 2, mentioned Sarah Conley Odenkirk, associate and co-head of the artwork regulation apply group at Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP. Still, she mentioned, these interested by the impression of AI on the humanities can draw classes from the crypto rush—which crashed spectacularly, leaving many traders out of pocket—together with taking “a less speculative and more deliberate approach.”

Odenkirk listed the various points that require consideration: “What it means to create, what it means to sustainably evolve, and how we can build the best framework supporting human-generated creative expression, which ultimately forms the backbone of our humanity.”

“Rather than simply being awed by AI’s infinite potential for creative output or terrified by its equally infinite potential for destruction, we need to take the time to thoughtfully build guard rails and infrastructure that will not only protect existing human-generated creative expression, but carefully analyze and evaluate the nature and value of AI’s output,” mentioned Odenkirk.

The TIME100 Impact Dinner: Extraordinary Women Shaping the Future of AI was offered by Meta.