About this Event
Today, it has seemingly entered a new period of public resentment, with fear spiking, and the biggest AI companies pushing further and further towards AGI like some inevitability.
Join us as we discuss the real dangers and opportunities that AI, in its current form, can pose to humanity, and what might be coming.
And together, we'll explore the political climate of AI today. What are the biggest companies fighting for, and what does that mean for our representatives and lawmakers trying to regulate AI?
See the whole week of programming here.
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Emma Pierson is an assistant professor of computer science at Berkeley, affiliated with the Berkeley AI Research Lab, Computational Precision Health, and the Center for Human-Compatible AI. Her research has been recognized by a Rhodes Scholarship, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, and Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, and she has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, and various other publications.
Greg Ward is the new San Francisco group coordinator for PauseAI-US, and serves as one of their many grassroots lobbyists. He understands the political climate of AI and the movement to regulate it. Before his AI activism, he enjoyed a 40+ year career as a research software engineer and inventor. He is the principal author of the award-winning Radiance lighting simulation, relied on by daylight researchers and architectural engineering firms throughout the world. He has over a hundred issued patents covering image capture, display, and virtual reality.
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