De Kai
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De Kai’s work in AI, language, music, creativity, and ethics urges cultures to interrelate. Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST and Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley’s ICSI, he was named ACL Founding Fellow for pioneering contributions to machine learning of AIs like Google/Yahoo/Microsoft Translate. De Kai is also creator of one of Hong Kong’s best known world music collectives, ReOrientate, and was one of eight inaugural members of Google’s AI ethics council. Debrett’s named him one of the 100 most influential people in Hong Kong, and he serves as independent director of the AI governance think tank The Future Society. Most recently De Kai’ has been featured by The New York Times and on the cover of Germany’s “Human” magazine, and his book about AI and humanity will appear this coming year from MIT Press.
