UC Berkeley School of Information

Gathering the thought leaders in technology and public policy, the School of Information, Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) hosted UC Berkeley’s inaugural Technology Policy Week. Throughout the four-day event, which ran from October 20 to October 23, experts hosted panels and workshops to recount their experiences working in public policy and to give advice to the next generation of technology and policy leaders. In particular, the 2024-2025 Tech Policy Fellows and the Executive Fellows in Applied Technology Policy presented their year-long research projects and shared some crucial lessons learned from throughout the last few years of their civic careers. 

 Berkeley expert Hany Farid explains how Sora can be dangerous to the information ecosystem. “It is part of a continuum of AI models being able to create images and video that are passing through the uncanny valley,” Farid added. “It seems likely that the same types of abuses we’ve seen in the past will be supercharged by these new powerful tools.”