De Kai is the author of the award winning book Raising AI, which MIT Press will release in paperback in March 2026, and recently founded the Empathetic AI Institute. He is a pioneering AI professor who invented and built the web’s first global AI translator, laying the groundwork for tools like Google Translate and Bing Translator, and was honored by the ACL as a Founding Fellow for his decades of breakthroughs, which lie at the intersection of language, AI, cognition, and ethics. De Kai is at Hong Kong's UST and at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute, served on Google’s inaugural AI ethics advisory council and is an independent director at the AI ethics think tank The Future Society.