De Kai
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De Kai is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST and Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute. He is also the Independent Director of AI ethics think tank The Future Society, and was one of eight inaugural members of Google’s AI ethics council.
Career
De Kai invented and built the online language translator Google Translate, Yahoo Translate, and Microsoft Bing Translator.He was honored by the Association for Computational Linguistics as one of only seventeen Founding Fellows and by Debrett’s as one of the 100 most influential figures of Hong Kong. His doctoral work at UC Berkeley helped shift natural language processing toward machine-learning-based approaches, which later became standard in AI systems.
In 2025 De Kai published the book Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future, where he argues that we must treat AI development like parenting.
References
IBM The children we built: De Kai on why AI is a generation, not a tool June 12th 2025
South China Morning Post AI scientist De Kai offers a new vision for 'Parenting AI' June 7th, 2025
The Innovator September 22, 2023 Interview Of The Week: De Kai, AI Expert
MIT Press June 3rd, 2025 Raising AI
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