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Kavli Center Colloquium: Amy Marcus on her new Book ‘We the Scientists’ | 4/24/23

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The Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning WSJ reporter and author, Amy Dockser Marcus. Amy will talk about her new book, "We the Scientists," which chronicles the story of a group of activist parents and scientists who join forces to develop a drug to treat a rare disease.

For more than half a century, medical advances have been driven by investigators launching experiments inside labs. Science is often conducted in isolation and geared toward the long view. This is the story of a group of people who tried to force the lab doors...

KCESP Fellows Weekly Colloquium

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Part of the core programming for the KCESP Fellows. Each Monday, Fellows and core faculty and staff meet alternating between formats to bring training, discussion, and in-progress support to the fellows.

Formats include:

Group Meeting: Group meetings may include topics such as brainstorming, discussions, work-related planning, etc.

Journal Club: 1-2 people select 1-3 papers, recent or foundational, to present to the group for discussion.

Work in Progress: 1-2 people present their work in progress for input from the group

Speaker: A speaker(s) gives...

BERGIT Meeting | Philip Reiner "How digital technologies influence cognition and democracy" | 3/22/23

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At this meeting, Philip Reiner will share important findings from a two-year project of the Digital Cognition and Democracy Initiative which brought together experts in neuroscience, AI, digital media, psychiatry, government, and more to investigate how digital technologies influence cognition and democracy. You can...

Amy Maxmen, "Inequality as a Frontier for Science Journalism" | 11/3/22

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The Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, hosted this lecture sponsored by the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards program. Amy Maxmen’s talk is part of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards program's annual fall lecture series. The awards program has recognized excellence in science reporting since 1945, including a 2020 Gold Award to Maxmen in the Magazine category for her report in Nature on “Behind the Front Lines of...

Berkeley Ethics and Regulation Group for Innovative Technologies

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The Berkeley Ethics and Regulation Group for Innovative Technologies (BERGIT) is an ideas exchange and a meeting ground for discussions across disciplines to integrate ethics, regulation, and policy with science. Our goal is to provide space for discussion, facilitate insight, and instigate a proactive cultural shift in responsible innovation. BERGIT is led by an interdisciplinary team with expertise in Ethics, Law, Public Health, and Molecular Biology and has participants from the Bay Area and beyond.

Upon the creation of the Kavli Center for...

Stuart Russell to Participate in UC Berkeley AI lectures exploring possibilities, implications of ChatGPT

March 10, 2023
Adapted from Kara Manke

Since its launch last November, the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been an international sensation, with people using the platform to do everything from writing essays, computer code, poems and research proposals to planning vacations, flirting with Tinder matches and creating malware.

At a series of public lectures at Berkeley this spring, seven of the world’s leading experts on AI will address these questions head-on.

The series will feature Berkeley Ph.D. recipient...

https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/03/10/ai-lectures-at-berkeley-to-explore-possibil…

Open House | 2/23/23

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The Kavli Center, together with suite-mates, the Center for Long-Term Cyber Security and the Berkeley Institute for Data Sciences, are welcoming the campus community to their newly renovated space in Sutardja Dai Hall!

The three centers share overlapping interests in bringing researchers together across disciplines to advance socially responsible innovations.

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12:00 – 12:30 Social; light lunch in new space

12:30 – 1:00 Program: Welcome! About each center and current or upcoming programs, and a bout the collaboration between groups...

Launch Event | 5/5/22

The Kavli Center celebrated its Launch in May of 2022