UC Berkeley\u2019s second Agentic AI Summit drew thousands of students, tech professionals and researchers Aug. 1-2 for a weekend conference centered around the new evolution of AI that can act on its own.<\/p>\n
Dawn Song, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, which hosted the event researches AI safety and responsibility \u2014 something she said was an important conversation at the summit.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgentic AI has the potential to transform how we work, learn, and solve complex problems, but realizing that potential requires us to think carefully about how we build and deploy these systems,\u201d Song said in an email. \u201cWhat has been encouraging to see at this summit is the willingness of people across the ecosystem to engage with both sides of that challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event brought together about 5,000 attendees from more than 250 schools and 1,500 industry organizations, with 100,000 people watching the livestream, according to organizers.<\/p>\n
The conference featured dozens of panels and presentations from more than 200 speakers \u2014 including UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons and Amazon, Nvidia and OpenAI executives and scientists.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re a huge public university that really spans the range of knowledge. We\u2019ve got departments in anything you could possibly imagine,\u201d said Eric Meyer, dean of UC Berkeley\u2019s School of Information. \u201cThis is the right kind of place for people to be talking about what the frontiers look like in AI \u2014 both the promises and the perils of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
For UC Berkeley junior Arjun Krishnan, there is \u201cuncertainty\u201d around how AI will evolve. As an environmental economics and policy major, he says AI also has the potential to solve human problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth sides of the coin can use it, and I think while we see a lot of corporations going kind of gung ho about using these technologies for \u2018evil things,\u2019 you kind of have to fight fire with fire,\u201d Krishnan said.<\/p>\n
Dozens of AI researchers also lined the halls of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Building to share research spanning from AI regulation to its applications in science.<\/p>\n
Jiaxin Pei, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a researcher at Stanford, studied how AI systems had \u201chidden agendas\u201d: system prompts that could override the user and secretly change the behavior of AI systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether we must \u2014 and I\u2019m sure that we can \u2014 honor the ultimate objective of this summit by taking steps for a safe navigation towards a technology future that doesn\u2019t just automate actions, but actively empowers individuals, enriches societies and amplifies human potential,\u201d Lyons said during his opening speech. \u201cThere may be no higher calling at this moment of time in world history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley\u2019s second Agentic AI Summit drew thousands of students, tech professionals and researchers Aug. 1-2 for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,64353,7493,321,64354,64359,64355,46324,64360,64357,64362,64361,58,157,64356,64358,12152,5120,64363,10310],"class_list":["post-128563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai","tag-agentic-ai-summit","tag-agentic-artificial-intelligence","tag-amazon","tag-angentic-ai","tag-arjun-krishnan","tag-berkeley-center-for-responsible-decentralized-intelligence","tag-dawn-song","tag-environmental-economics-policy","tag-eric-meyer","tag-jiaxin-pei","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-student-union","tag-nvidia","tag-openai","tag-rich-lyons","tag-school-of-information","tag-stanford","tag-uc-berkeley","tag-university-of-texas-at-austin","tag-ut-austin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}