In August 2026, Jadda Miller (she/her) began her position as a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar, working alongside School of Information Professor Kimiko Ryokai. We spoke to Miller about her interests outside of their work and what she was working on bef...

At ISCLR’s annual general meeting in Prague in the summer of 2014, the membership voted to establish this new award for lifetime achievement. After Dr. Linda Dégh passed away later that summer, the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly lowered the barrier to entry for the production and distribution of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) and child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), leading...

Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the Citation Laureates 2026 , a distinguished group of 22 researchers whose work is of Nobel class...

post authored by: Priya Charagondla, Cody Hennesy, and Anna Sackmann The Library recently developed a shared direction for our engagement with artificial intelligence, in the form of the UC Berkeley ...

It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter.

CCST's two inaugural AI Science Advisors were placed at the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the California Department of Technology (CDT) to advise on frontier AI safe...

I School alum Anna Lanzino applied her experience with the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic to launch a consulting firm serving at-risk organizations

EpiNTelligence, by Summer 2026 Master of Information and Data Science alums Alex Kim, Alex Lei, Elaine Chan, and Sia Morris, is a tool that synthesizes fragmented data from existing sources such as th...

How vulnerable are American cities and critical infrastructure like electrical grids, sewage treatment plants, and communications to cyber warfare?

In a time when development progress has dipped to its weakest pace in 75 years, artificial intelligence (AI) offers developing economies a rare path to greater prosperity. World Development Report 202...

“People have tried to rewrite history by altering content for hundreds of years. This tendency – to create narratives and push them out and create content that supports those narratives – is something that is inherent to the human experience.  But what ...

As AI chatbots become more popular, people have increased the amount of confidential information shared with these tools — often without knowledge of the consequences. TrustLayer AI, by Summer 2026 Ma...

Sep 26, 2026, 1:30 pm - Join alumni, faculty, students, and friends as we celebrate a defining milestone in the history of the UC Berkeley School of Information.

Learn about the span of new fall semester course offerings, including classes touching on cutting-edge research, modern ethical dilemmas and literary works across the centuries.

Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 am - In a neural network, the hidden layers are the unseen strata between input and output. In this exhibit, seventeen international artists make visible what AI keeps out of sight.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so...

From Trusted Data to Autonomous Operations

The most important question in AI design isn’t, “What can the model do?”

As the midterm elections approach, the top issue for voters is affordability and cost of living. Voters want candidates to talk about how they will address costs, and Democrats and Republicans are foc...

At an Asia Society Northern California discussion, leading voices argued that the US risks undermining the innovation ecosystem at the root of its success

Vinton, Merici, Melanie Girod, and Omar Morales. 2026. “The Life and Death of Direct File.” University of California, Berkeley.

Aug 13, 2026, 5:00 pm - Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Physical AI products are coming despite cybersecurity loopholes. Here are 3 immediate actions actors along the value chain can take to help close this gap.

A new system could forecast malnutrition hotspots before they occur and help humanitarian organizations target preventative aid.

Aug 13, 2026, 6:00 pm - “Data, Power and the Ethics of Knowledge: A Digital Humanities Series” is presented by the Summer Program in Digital Humanities

Sarah Barrington shifts from simply asking “real or fake?” to deeply considering the ways AI and synthetic media influence our notions of culture, identity and trust.    Kimberly and Sarah discuss ...

Aug 13, 2026, 5:00 pm - Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

UC Berkeley’s second Agentic AI Summit drew thousands of students, tech professionals and researchers Aug. 1-2 for a weekend conference centered around the new evolution of AI that can act

Information about an AI tool the U.S. government was developing to help vet immigrant children’s sponsors disappeared from an agency’s registry after the Monitor asked about it.

Project AI Evidence (PAIE) identifies, evaluates, and scales innovative applications of artificial intelligence for social good and in the fight against poverty by bringing together adopters, tech com...

Aug 5, 2026, 4:00 pm - Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Register to be a speaker at the SF and Bay Area Data Engineers Meetup.

Aug 5, 2026, 4:00 pm - Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Dr. Sayash Kapoor has been appointed as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. His new position will start in July 2027.

Hosted by the CITRIS Tech Policy initiative, Tech Policy Design will convene graduate students from across the CITRIS campuses in October 2025.