Berkeley's Simons Institute to host 2026 workshop on hallucinations and trustworthy AI
aminkarbasi · x · 2026-10-01
UC Berkeley's Simons Institute will host Trustworthy AI: From Hallucinations to Reliable Autonomy, Oct 5–9, 2026 — a program Amin Karbasi called "best-in-class."
- Focus: generative model scaling has brought hallucinations; the workshop seeks novel perspectives and formulations to explain and mitigate them, making generation more robust and accurate.
- Scope: both discrete settings (text, graphs) and continuous settings across a broad family of models, with emphasis on theoretical understanding and trade-offs with generalization and creativity.
- People: organized by Dawn Song (UC Berkeley), Sharon Li and Grigorios Chrysos (UW-Madison), and Santosh Vempala (Georgia Tech), with invited participants including Adam Kalai, Elias Bareinboim, Soheil Feizi, and Mohit Iyyer.
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