Walk with a NaturalistJoin Shelby Hendricks, group tour and family programs manager, for an observation-based exploration of works currently on view through the lenses of art and science.These cross-disciplinary tours invite visitors to engage with artworks in unexpected ways, bringing a more-than-human dimension to scientific ideas while deepening our emotional connection to the ...
In this talk, we take the position that agent security must be approached as a systems problem: the AI model powering the agent must be treated as an untrusted component, and security invariants must be enforced at the system level. Through this lens, efforts to increase model robustness (the dominant ...
Liat Berdugo (Media Artist) on "Technologies of the Surface: Embodying the Gestural Interfaces of Everyday Technology" Julia Markel on "Which self does AI remember?" Vinod Menon (Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) on "The Default Mode Network, the Self, and Consciousness in the Age of AI"
Professor Alexie Leauthaud (UC Santa Cruz) will discuss some of the largest challenges to our understanding of the universe and its basic ingredients. She will focus on some of the latest research on the nature of dark energy and will explain why recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ...
Remember when everyone rushed to ship microservices without service discovery, circuit breakers, or tracing? AI agents are in that exact "wild west" phase right now. Everyone is building them; very few are thinking about the infrastructure underneath.Drawing from real-world experience deploying production agents across 120+ microservices, this talk bypasses the ...
Where: Mountain ViewCost: Free
Southern Skies, Global Reach: Chile and Modern AstronomyChile is home to many of the largest and most advanced observatories on Earth, due to high altitudes, dry deserts, and low light pollution. Chile has become a center of cutting edge astronomical research, but this has been made possible by the collaborative efforts of multiple countries and the work ...
The Humanist Review of AI: Abundance & ScarcityWhat becomes scarce when intelligence is abundant? Artificial intelligence promises a new era of abundance??"but how will it deliver on that promise? And what impact will abundance have on how our society works?This event marks the publication of the second issue of The Humanist Review of AI, a new journal ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $45 General, $10 students, discount for members