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UC Berkeley Blog
9M ago
As I write this blog, I am sitting in the comfort of the Bay Area, experiencing our mild summer temperatures, due to the marine influence of Karl the Fog. However, much of the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing an unprecedented period of weather extremes this summer. Meteorological records show we experienced the hottest June ever recorded ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
10M ago
June and July are the conferences’ months, and this year, I attended the European Environmental Economics meeting in Cyprus, the International Consortium of Applied Bioeconomy Research in Buenos Aires, and a one-day workshop on Circular Bioeconomy in Omaha and visited family in Israel. I got used to paying the price for international travel ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
10M ago
A researcher was granted access earlier this year by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to incredibly potent artificial intelligence software – and leaked it to the world. As a former researcher on Meta’s civic integrity and responsible AI teams, I am terrified by what could happen next. Though Meta was violated by the leak, it came ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
10M ago
co-authored with Ilona Sologoub (VoxUkraine) and Tetyana Deryugina (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has brought a sobering realization that, even 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia continues to be a brutal empire. At the same time, after expecting Kyiv to fall in ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
11M ago
We're at a fascinating 'epi-inflection point' in generative AI. There are so many valid concerns surrounding it, but if events like this, and others, help set a strong cultural orientation toward AI innovation that is ethical and responsible, there is much room for advancement that improves our lives in ways we can’t begin to fathom ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
11M ago
Engaging with AI's unique form of creativity could help us and learn new things, combine and extend previous ideas, and design new molecules, new medicines, and new works of art ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
1y ago
UC Berkeley Journalism professor Ken Light revisits images he captured of child laborers in America's agricultural fields during the 1970s and 80s ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
1y ago
My mother died 20 years ago. We had a good relationship. I gave her flowers on every occasion possible and told her I loved her, but only now, as I get older, I realize how much she affected my attitude and my thinking. My mother was born during the First World War in Jerusalem. She ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
1y ago
The Turkish opposition has never been as hopeful as it is today. Despite the many difficulties of the past two decades, never have so many factors lined up against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P. The economy, after the lira spiraled downward in 2018 and none of the government’s ..read more
UC Berkeley Blog
1y ago
Ranking fatigue has finally set in, and its a worldwide phenomenon. A number of high-profile law schools in the US recently announced they will no longer participate in one commercial ranking; Dutch universities have begun a move away from using rankings and citation indexes for evaluating university performance, and that of their faculty. China, home ..read more