UC Berkeley summit draws thousands to debate agentic AI, safety, and innovation
the_daily_cal · reddit · 2026-08-04
UC Berkeley’s second Agentic AI Summit drew thousands of students, tech professionals, and researchers on Aug. 1–2.
- The event focused on agentic AI, the newer wave of systems that can act on their own.
- Dawn Song, co-director of Berkeley’s Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, said the summit highlighted both the promise and the deployment risks of these systems.
- The conference framed safety and innovation as a paired conversation rather than competing camps.
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