Digital Cons- A Conversation with Dr. Mark Nitzberg, Executive Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley

Please join Dr. Nitzberg for a wide-ranging mountain-peaks-tour of AI impacts, focusing on the dangers and negatives.

This event will feature comments by Professor Ken Anderson and will be moderated by Professor Padideh Ala'i.

Dr. Mark Nitzberg is a computer scientist and entrepreneur focused on the effects of AI and related technologies on our society, economy and democracy. Having worked with the founders of the field of AI, he brings business experience and a solid technology foundation to recent work engaging in broader debates. He is primarily concerned with tackling AI governance issues and the risk of social, economic, and political harms from the unchecked power of dominant digital platform companies.

Dr. Nitzberg is Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI, Head of Strategic Outreach at the Berkeley AI Research Lab, and Director of Technology Research at BRIE, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. In industry, he has built technology ventures applying AI in health care, finance, education and data analytics for developing regions. He has worked at Bell Laboratories, Microsoft, and Amazon, and run operations of 300 persons on $30M annual budgets.

He is co-author of Solomon’s Code — an examination of AI and how it reshapes human values, trust, and power around the world — and has published a number of pieces on AI impacts and governance.