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Programs from the University of California, Berkeley.
Embodiment affects how we understand personhood, moral status, and whether this life is our only life. Mark Johnston, Henry Putnam Universit...
A common model of AI suggests that there is a single measure of intelligence, often called AGI, and that AI systems are agents who can posse...
Contemporary populism is almost everywhere; a right wing phenomena that focuses on a politics of white working class grievance. A set of gri...
How do you navigate a nonlinear, “squiggly line” career in science and public health? Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific...
Espiritismo traces its roots to the sacred knowledge of West and Central African peoples carried into the Americas by enslaved ancestors bet...
Public health often works behind the scenes—preventing illness, protecting communities, and generating research that too often stays hidden...
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciou...
Chef-turned-chemist Vayu Hill-Maini has a passion: to turn food waste into culinary treats using a fungus called Neurospora intermedia. Visi...
Legal scholar Annabel Brett explores the idea of “moral possibility”—the boundary between what laws demand and what people can realistically...
Political theorist Annabel Brett of Cambridge University explores how the concept of “moral possibility” shapes law, politics, and public ob...
It's time for a new narrative for the ocean, one that reflects current scientific knowledge and acknowledges innovative new partnerships and...
Three major global challenges – climate change, loss of biodiversity and its benefits, and inequality and inequity among people – are typica...
There's a powerful idea in the history of European legal and political thought: that laws must be possible for people to follow. Annabel Bre...
The "energy transition" is actually a shift from relying on fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas) to using metals to generate energy. Howev...
Historian and political commentator Heather Cox Richardson joins UC Berkeley professor of law and history Dylan Penningroth in a timely conv...
We are at a critical moment in our society. While we advance efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, across the globe, millions...
Does giving cash up front improve the health and wellbeing of people in poor communities? In this program, Edward (Ted) Miguel, professor of...
This program explores the decolonizing potential of Indian aesthetic-social philosophy by challenging two entrenched colonial prejudices: th...
What defines a person’s character, and how does it shape who they are? In this lecture, Susan Wolf, emeritus professor of philosophy at the...
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet face...
As voters prepare to head to the polls on Election Day, join the Goldman School of Public Policy and Cal Performances for a critical look at...
This program aims to recover Plato’s idea of craft or art, Greek technê, in the expansive sense which includes not only the handicrafts but...
Across the United States, homelessness has been on the rise. In California, there have been over 181,000 people without a stable place to ca...
What is a craft? For Plato, paradigmatic craft-practitioners include the doctor, carpenter and navigator; an updated, more generous concepti...
Especially when practiced as a line of work — as a job or métier — craft sets norms for its practitioners. On the whole, a shoemaker should...
In this program, Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, examines how police in...
The 2021-2022 term of the U.S. Supreme Court is widely considered to be the most consequential in living memory. Bruen, West Virginia v. EPA...
America’s contemporary democratic predicament is rooted in its historically incomplete democratization. Born in a pre-democratic era, the co...
What does it mean when we use the first-person pronoun ‘I’? And how does it relate to self-consciousness? In this program, Béatrice Longuene...
Where did the American Dream of hard work equals upward mobility go? And what will it take to bring it back? In this talk, Raj Chetty, direc...
Children’s chances of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90% to 50% over the past half century in America. How can we restore...
Young children’s learning may be an important model for artificial intelligence (AI). In this program, Alison Gopnik, professor of psycholog...
Researchers used to define objectives for artificial intelligence (AI) agents by hand, but with progress in optimization and reinforcement l...
After founding four companies and working at top firms in venture capital and private equity, where fast growth and maximum profits rule, Da...
California’s deepest problems — the skyrocketing cost of housing, the lagging development of clean energy, the traffic choking the state — r...
In this program, Jaron Lanier, Microsoft's prime unifying scientist, discusses a piece he published in The New Yorker (“There Is No AI”) abo...
This episode of TecHype features Yoel Roth, former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter. Yoel provides first-hand insights into how one of th...
Joan Donovan, a leading disinformation researcher specializing in media manipulation, explains how social media platforms have become the ne...
TecHype is a groundbreaking series that cuts through the hype around emerging technologies. Each episode debunks misunderstandings around em...
UC Berkeley engineers have created a simple and low-cost new arsenic treatment system to help low-income communities access safer water. In...
TecHype is a groundbreaking series that cuts through the hype around emerging technologies to get to what matters. Each episode debunks misu...
Researchers deployed a fleet of 100 semi-autonomous vehicles to test whether a new AI-powered cruise control system can help smooth the flow...
UC Berkeley drills a 400-foot borehole to explore geothermal heating on campus. UC Berkeley plans to decommission its 40-year-old cogenerati...
Using real-life examples and historical evidence, French anthropologist Philippe Descola aims to understand the unique characteristics of co...
In this program, scholars Philippe Descola, Adom Getachew, Timothy LeCain and David Wengrow discuss how views of humans verses non-humans sh...
This series on artificial intelligence explores recent breakthroughs of AI, its broader societal implications and its future potential. In t...
This series on artificial intelligence explores recent breakthroughs of AI, its broader societal implications and its future potential. In t...
This series on artificial intelligence explores recent breakthroughs of AI, its broader societal implications and its future potential. In t...
This series on artificial intelligence explores recent breakthroughs of AI, its broader societal implications and its future potential. In t...
French anthropologist Philippe Descola examines the evolution of modern thinking about societies. He argues that the rooting of the descript...