Shaping Responsible AI: Safety and Social Good

Schedule

Fri Mar 06 2026 at 12:30 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Banatao Auditorium | Berkeley, CA

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Shape the future of tech! Join UC Berkeley's AI Policy Symposium on AI accountability and tech for social good.
About this Event

Join Us for Shaping Responsible AI!

Get ready for an exciting in-person event all about AI safety and social good. Dive into discussions, meet passionate folks, and explore how we can steer AI towards a better tomorrow. Whether you're an expert or just curious, this is your spot to learn and connect!


Agenda

πŸ•‘: 12:30 PM - 12:40 PM
Keynote Address by Camille Crittenden (Director, CITRIS)
πŸ•‘: 12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
Panel Discussion 1: Approaches to Enforcing AI Accountability and Safety

Info: As AI systems rapidly evolve, the gap between technological advancement and meaningful accountability widens. We'll examine why voluntary AI safety commitments repeatedly fail, what independent evaluation could actually look like, and whether existing governance structures can yield AI safety. Panelists:
Hank Dempsey (Legal Staff at Anthropic)
Shubhi Mathur (Senior Program Manager at Clavata AI)
Naomi Schiffman (Meta Oversight Board)


πŸ•‘: 02:00 PM - 03:00 AM
Panel Discussion 2: Opportunities to Leverage AI for Good

Info: This session convenes startup founders and government practitioners to explore how AI can be intentionally leveraged to advance social good and justice.
Panelists:
Sunil Rajaraman (Founder, Hamlet)
Christine Tsang (Former Executive Director at Stanford RegLab)
Michele Neitz (Visiting Professor and Founding Director, Center for Law, Tech, and Social Good at the University of San Francisco)
Alessandro Balzi (Former Applied AI Manager at Deloitte, Current MSx Candidate at Stanford Graduate School of Business)


πŸ•‘: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Networking Session
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Banatao Auditorium, 2594 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, United States

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