Tech Policy Week | UC Berkeley

Bigger, Better Ambitions for AI

Monday, October 20, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm PDT
Graduate Theological Union, 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, CA, 3rd floor Board Room
Remote video URL

Sponsored by the School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy

How can we advance efforts to harness AI to deliver positive impacts to people’s lives?

A panel of experts will explore how AI can help us deliver positive impacts on people’s lives in areas such as developing better drugs faster, closing educational gaps, creating better weather forecasts, and others. The conversation will outline the paths toward shaping AI development to deliver these groundbreaking impacts for the American people.

Speakers

Dr. Arati Prabhakar
UC Berkeley Executive Fellow in Applied Technology Policy
Former Science and Technology Advisor to President Biden
Former Director, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy

Vivek Viswanathan (moderator)
Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Former White House Senior Policy Advisor and Special Assistant to the President. 

Animashree Anandkumar
Bren Professor of Computing
California Institute of Technology

Last updated: November 5, 2025