A Nightmare on LLM Street: The Peril of Emergent Misalignment

A clipart-style red robot smiles deviously on the phone

Or: Has AI Now Sent the Human Hacker to the Unemployment Line Also? The Call is Coming from Inside the House In the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls, a babysitter terrorized by anonymous phone calls eventually learns the calls are originating from a second line inside the house she thought she was protecting.…

Read More

Learn from the Billionaire Berkeley Professor Powering the Future of AI

Prof. Ion Stoica

Forbes recently profiled Ion Stoica — co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale — whose research and teaching have shaped some of the world’s most influential AI companies. Despite building billion-dollar ventures and chairing a $6M-a-year research lab funded by tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia, Stoica chooses to stay in the classroom, mentoring students and…

Read More

Berkeley Engineering Launches AI Program for Execs

AI for Executives Faculty AI for C Suite Faculty Pieter Abbeel – AI Pioneer Director of Berkeley Robot Learning Lab Co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab Professor, Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) David Gallacher – Business Strategy Expert Industry Fellow, UC Berkeley College of Engineering, SCET Stuart Russell – AI Thought Leader Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley Computer Science Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering Anca Dragan – Robotics & AI Researcher Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Director of AI Safety and Alignment, Google DeepMind Ali Ghodsi – AI Entrepreneur CEO & Co-Founder, Databricks Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Brandie Nonnecke – AI Ethics Specialist Director, CITRIS Policy Lab Associate Research Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy Ion Stoica – Cloud Computing Innovator Executive Chairman, Databricks Director, Sky Computing Lab Professor, UC Berkeley Computer Science Dominique Shelton Leipzig – AI, Privacy & Cybersecurity Expert Partner, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Practice, Mayer Brown Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, NxtWork

Berkeley, CA, Aug 27, 2024 — On November 11-12, 2024, Berkeley Engineering’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) will launch the AI for the C-Suite program, a premier executive education course designed to equip senior leaders with strategic insights into leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) within their organizations. This in-person AI strategy workshop, held on…

Read More

“AI is the New Electricity”: Insights from Dr. Andrew Ng

AI luminary Andrew Ng recently shared his insights on the future of AI at a Berkeley event titled “How AI Will Change the World (for Good)” hosted by The House Fund with support from the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET). Ng, one of the world’s most respected AI experts, emphasized the transformative potential…

Read More