Bay Area AI Optimization & Security (not AGI-focused) Meetup x MLOps Community w Storia AI, Khoj, and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence
Welcome back and into 2025!
Monthly (and New Year's) edition of the monthly academic salon discussing all aspects under the critical topic of AI safety, partnering w MLOps Community!
TLDR: Bringing together scholastic exercises with enterprise work in AI, this is a forum to discuss and address the deepest technical and ethical questions around AI safety in use within society. Primarily a social event to discuss current issues, featuring lightning talks while leaving more time for Q&A that could instigate a larger scope for any solutions.
Note this meetup is not AGI-focused and supports scientifically-grounded conversations for issues in AI from development pov.
Talks this month:
Julia Turc, Co-Founder @ Storia AI
Saba Imran, Co-Founder @ Khoj, open-source AI second brain
Andy Zou, researcher @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence, presenting the paper "Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency"
Schedule:
5:30pm - Doors / pizza
6:30pm - Lightning Talks w Q&A (5-10 min)
7:00pm - Discussion
8:30pm - Shutting it down