Professor Fei-Fei Li, known as the 'godmother' of AI, expressed pride in being the only woman among seven pioneers to receive the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering from the King. The award acknowledges their contributions to modern machine learning, which is fundamental to AI's rapid advancement.

• Professor Li, alongside six male counterparts including Dr. Geoffrey Hinton and Jensen Huang, will be honored at St James’s Palace.
• Her pivotal work on ImageNet, creating large-scale image recognition datasets, enabled major advances in computer vision and "open[ed] the floodgate of data-driven AI".
• Despite public disagreements among laureates on AI's dangers, Professor Li advocates for a "pragmatic approach" and "science based" public communication, calling the debate "healthy".