Papa's Lessons Are More Crucial than Ever in the Age of AI

This article has been published in today’s Golden Gate Xpress, the newspaper of San Francisco State University. [Mar 31, 2025] Thirty-some years ago at the Berkeley ceremony granting my PhD in AI, my advisor finally met my family. Asked what he did, my father replied “oh, I was President at San Francisco State University”. My advisor’s jaw dropped practically audibly on the floor. In seven years mentoring me, he’d never had any inkling I was the son of the president of the giant, storied university just across the bay. A theoretical physicist, Chia-Wei Woo in 1983 became the first Chinese-American to head a major US university, and his service earned him “the key” to San Francisco from then-mayor Dianne Feinstein. Raising AI by De Kai is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. He was a man of great heart and also of great accomplishments. My father’s contributions to humanity are attested by numerous accolad

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