UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @kailash.satyarthi recently visited the UC Berkeley campus to address students and faculty developing AI technologies, imploring them to center compassion in their work.

“Compassion is a disruptive, dynamic and transformative force,” Satyarthi said at the Sept. 30 event hosted by the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) in collaboration with the Satyarthi Movement for Global Compassion and Arete Youth Academy.

Satyarthi aims to bring the disruptive power of compassion to the dialogue on AI in order to steer the technology away from potential catastrophe and toward the service of humanity.

Joined by Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley professor ​of computer science; Rose Niousha, UC Berkeley computer science Ph.D. student; and Jennifer Chayes, CDSS dean, Satyarthi and the panel considered how compassion could become central to the development of AI.

“Being able to quantify what impact on a human looks like is probably the first step to making compassion embedded into the system,” said Niousha.

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📸: 1, 2, 4, 6: Isabella Kira / UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society; 3, 5: Victoria Mariolle

[Image description: Slide 1: Kailash Satyarthi holding hands with Jennifer Chayes while speaking to the audience; Slide 2: Satyarthi addressing the audience from a podium; Slide 3: Stuart Russell speaking to the panel; audience in the Gateway lecture hall; Slide 4: Rose Niousha speaking to the audience from the panel; Satyarthi responding to a question and looking at the audience from the panel.]

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