Jodi Halpern MD, PhD holds a University Chair and is Professor of Bioethics at UC Berkeley and the co-founder of the Berkeley Group on the Ethics and Regulation of Innovative Technologies. She is a psychiatrist, and received her MD and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University, where she received the Porter Prize for Outstanding Dissertation across all disciplines. Halpern’s research brings together psychiatry, philosophy and affective forecastingto examine how innovative technologies such as gene editing and artificial intelligence transform relationships and society in...
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Stuart Russell is a Professor and formerly Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, and was the Innaugural Faculty Director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and is Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence, with a current emphasis on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. In the area of arms control, Russell has developed a new global seismic monitoring system for...
