Events

Sayash Kapoor is coauthor of AI Snake Oil and author of the newsletter AI as Normal Technology. He explains the stakes of misplaced optimism about AI in science, medicine, and more.

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Bellwether Lecturer Michaela Mahlberg.

Michaela Mahlberg is a corpus linguist who studies language as a social phenomenon and the ways we use language to understand and shape our world.

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Cybersecurity Clinic students share their experiences supporting public-interest organizations vulnerable to ideologically motivated threats.

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Exploring novel methods for deepfake detection, technical methods for biometric system evaluation, and the complexity of data privacy and consent in high-stakes situations

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Peter Dodds.

Data-driven, computational determination of the essence of meaning, stories, and characters, with Peter Dodds

Learn more about the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289), a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. 

How do users actually feel about deepfakes? Does it matter how the technology is used or what it is called?

An in-person, collaborative deep dive into Melanie Walsh’s topic, “AI Fiction in the Wild.”

Fiction readers are using AI to generate their own original stories, role-play, world-building, fan fiction, erotica, and more. Melanie Walsh explores the roots and future of AI in publishing and entertainment.

Join leaders from government, academia, industry, and civil society to discuss the most pressing tech policy challenges.

Celebrate the GSPP Tech Policy Fellows and I School Executive Fellows in Applied Technology Policy. 

Disabled Americans rely on digital accessibility technology and policy to guarantee their participation in digital society. Join this timely discussion of recent disability-inclusive technology policy advances.

What it will take to build effective guardrails for a technology that is rapidly reshaping our world?