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Past Webinars

Agentic AI: AI's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Moment

Blogs
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A Nightmare on LLM Street: The Peril of Emergent Misalignment

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…

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AI Leadership: Perspectives from Academia and Venture on the Future of AI

Rapid advancements in AI will continue to transform the ways in which we work and live. To understand the scope of its impact is complex, requiring an understanding of multiple perspectives that transcend both practice and…

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The Future of AI: It’s About Architecture

Scaling: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally For much of the past decade, AI progress has been defined by scale: larger models trained on ever greater amounts of data and compute. The paradigm of “more parameters, better…

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AI’s Potential, Pitfalls, Policy, and Promise: A Conversation with Futurist and Strategist Olaf Groth

No longer a distant frontier, the AI-driven shift will undoubtedly continue to redefine global economies, industries, and institutions, a transformation that calls for strategic leadership of executives and policymakers. In the coming years, it is imperative…

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Beyond ROI: Are We Using the Wrong Metric in Measuring AI Success?

A Response to MIT’s “95% AI Failure” Study MIT’s recent report claiming that 95% of generative AI projects fail to deliver measurable return on investment has sent shockwaves through the business community. The study, “The GenAI…

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The Missing Bridge: Why AI Leadership Skills Matter More Than Ever

Vinod Khosla’s recent insights about the future of work and AI’s transformative impact resonate deeply with what we’re seeing across industries today. His advice to Gen Z—to “optimize your career for flexibility, not a single profession”…

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Revisited: Agentic AI, Chain-of-Thought & Emergent Misalignment

“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson Can We Chat? You may have…

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Engineer to Executive Starter Kit — Engineering Leadership Program

← Back to Resources Engineer to Executive Starter Kit A Practical Guide for Technical Leaders Navigating the Next Business Frontier Email Gate UC Berkeley Professional Education Enter your email to get this free resource TOC In…

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News
Andrew Laffoon, CEO at Mixbook
Mixbook Founder Andrew Laffoon; Entrepreneurial Success and the Growth Mindset

The journey to entrepreneurial success can be a long and winding road, but for Andrew Laffoon, it started right here at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. As a recipient of the Center’s Certificate of Engineering Management and Innovation program, Laffoon went on to co-found and serve as…

From left to rigiht: Jerry Luk, Co-Founder and President of Firework; Linda Yu, partner Soft Bank Vision Fund; and Victoria Howell, Director of SCET Professional Programs.
SCET Professional Programs holds emerging technologies workshop for NTU alumni 

In early October, the SCET Professional Programs hosted an in-person custom program at UC Berkeley for alumni from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Framed within the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship model, the program looked closely at important new venture trends among researchers here at UC Berkeley, and among Silicon Valley…

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SCET Faculty Shuo Chen on Corporate Social Justice & the Future of Data Privacy

SCET faculty, commission member in California’s Mental Health Commission and industry fellow, Shuo Chen, was recently interviewed on The Robots Are Coming podcast where she talked about how future business models can be created without selling data, how Web3 can help with data privacy by allowing users to own their…