Bay Area AI Optimization & Security (not AGI-focused) x MLOps Community w Khoj and ScaleAI / 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:

• ​Saba Imran, Co-Founder @ Khoj, open-source AI second brain

• ​Long Pham @ ScaleAI, presenting the paper also written with Berkeley Artificial Intelligence "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