UC San Diego launches Center for Principled Agentic Intelligence with $1.25M backing
sethlazar · x · 2026-10-31
UC San Diego launched the Center for Principled Agentic Intelligence (CPAi), an interdisciplinary hub co-led by Eddy Keming Chen and Misha Belkin for AI alignment and society research. Funded with $1M over three years plus $250K in shared computing, it will study alignment, human oversight, and independent evaluation, including an open-source testbed for assessing agentic AI systems.
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