The UC Center Sacramento, which produces weekly events to provide research-based knowledge to policy-makers and the UC community, created a six-part series to provide important elements of the AI conversation for state policy makers and the UC community. Please register now for each of six events in the series. Videos of each recorded event will be available after-the-fact.
Event Overview
‘Beyond the Hype’ and other essential insights on AI – a six-part series [REGISTRATION]
Wednesdays, January 17-March 6, 2024, 12-1 p.m.
Host: UC Davis, UC Center Sacramento
Location 1115 – 11th Street, Sacramento and by Zoom webinar
Who will attend
- Legislative staff of the state government
- Executive agency department staff of the state government
- Others interested in policy, including UC students, staff and faculty, and members of the public
What will be covered
- Economy/jobs
- Education
- Ethical policy-making
- Governance
- Government use of AI
- Health
- Scientific research
Line-up in the six-part series
Event 1: “Beyond the Hype: Unraveling the Myths, Realities, & Governance of Artificial Intelligence”
Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024, 12-1 p.m.
1115 11th Street, Sacramento and by Zoom webinarHost: UC Center Sacramento
Speaker: Brandie Nonnecke, PhD, founding director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley
Event 2: “Introducing an Open-source Adaptive Tutoring System to Accelerate Learning Sciences Research”
Wednesday, January 31, 12-1 p.m.
1115 11th Street, Sacramento and by Zoom webinar
Host: UC Center Sacramento
Speaker: Zachary Pardos, PhD, Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley
Event 3: “AI in Healthcare: Towards Explainability, Transparency, and Responsible Governance”
Wednesday, Feb 7, 2024, 12-1:15 p.m.
1115 11th Street, Sacramento and by Zoom webinar
Host: UC Center Sacramento
Speakers: Ida Sim, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Computational Precision Health at UCSF, the Co-Director of the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, and UCSF’s first Chief Research Informatics Officer, and Cora Han, J.D., Chief Health Data Officer for University of California Health.
Event 4: “Efficiencies and Safeguards for Government Uses of AI”
Wednesday, Feb 21, 2024, 12-1 p.m.
1115 11th Street, Sacramento and by Zoom webinar
Host: UC Center Sacramento
Speaker: Michael Karanicolas, Executive Director for the Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, UCLA
Event 5: “The Future of AI and California’s Economy”
Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024, 12-1 p.m.
1115 11th Street, Sacramento and by Zoom webinar
Host: UC Center Sacramento
Speaker: Matthew Harding, PhD, Professor of Economics and Statistics, UC Irvine
Event 6: “Ethical Policy-Making in an AI-driven World: existential risks, unimaginable wealth, and new roles for human minds”
Wednesday, Mar 6, 2024, 12 – 1 p.m.
Host: UC Center Sacramento
1115 11th Street, Sacramento and by Zoom webinar
Speaker: Professor Martin Hilbert from UC Davis Department of Communication
About the UC Center Sacramento
UC Center Sacramento educates California’s future leaders in politics and policymaking, while making the expertise of the faculty of the nation’s leading public university available to decision-makers in state government.
Contact
Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH
Distinguished Professor, UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine
Director, UC Center Sacramento