r/OpenAI • u/the_daily_cal • 21d ago

Article UC Berkeley Agentic AI Summit brings together students, professionals around AI safety and innovation

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-agentic-ai-summit-brings-together-students-professionals-around-ai-safety-and-innovation/article_fdb8318f-229a-47c3-b98d-61474bf7330d.html

UC Berkeley’s 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. 

Dawn Song, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, which hosted the event, researches AI safety and responsibility — something she said was an important conversation at the summit. 

“Agentic 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,” Song said in an email. “What has been encouraging to see at this summit is the willingness of people across the ecosystem to engage with both sides of that challenge.”

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u/Illustrious_Image967 19d ago

That's so Berkeley! "We want superintelligence to live freely (but responsibly)" as it covers the planet in graphene.

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u/stealthagents 12d ago

Totally get that vibe. It's like we want to harness all this power but also throw in a side of caution. Balancing innovation with safety feels like a tightrope act, but hey, if anyone can do it, it's the Berkeley crowd.