It's official 🎉 -- the @UofCalifornia Board of Regents voted to establish the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. We are @UCBerkeley’s first new college in more than 50 years! Follow @BerkeleyDataSci for more 🥳😁

A working group co-led by three experts at CDSS, @StanfordHAI and @CarnegieEndow submitted an evidence-backed report on frontier #AI policy to the Office of Governor @GavinNewsom, providing a policymaking framework for #California. Read the release:

Highlights from the Joint California Summit on Generative AI! 🌟 See how @BerkeleyDataSci, @StanfordHAI, @CAGoBiz, and @CAGovOps are leading the way in connecting cross-sector partners for groundbreaking #AI discussions & initiatives. #CaliforniaGenAI 🔗 https://t.co/wiOMGm01YB

California is on the leading edge of technology, including the future of artificial intelligence. Today, we brought together global leaders across fields — including tech, labor, government, and academia — to discuss how we can best use GenAI to serve Californians.

Today the Joint California Summit on #GenAI convened leaders across sectors to discuss how the state can best use AI to serve the public. The summit was hosted by @CAGoBiz, @CAGovOps, @BerkeleyDataSci, and @StanfordHAI. #CaliforniaGenAI 🌐 Learn more: https://t.co/gquXqGQhCI

“Educators are one of the early adopters of AI,” says Isabelle Hau of the @StanfordEd Accelerator for Learning during the education panel at the Joint California Summit on Generative AI. Watch the livestream here: https://t.co/piNPJDIw3p

"I believe that this is an era that calls for large-scale cooperation, and if we can make that a constant commitment, the rest will naturally flow." - @sonyachristian, Chancellor of @CalCommColleges Joint CA Summit on #GenAI:

Exciting News! @CAgovernor Gavin Newsom will be joining us at the Joint California Summit on Gen AI for a discussion with @BerkeleyDataSci dean @jenniferchayes and @StanfordHAI co-director @drfeifei. Tune in tomorrow at 9am PST: https://t.co/nPOuYK21vO

Exciting panels await at the Joint California Summit on Generative AI! Explore the impact of #AI on California with voices from government, academia, industry, and civil society. View the full lineup: https://t.co/nPOuYK21vO #CaliforniaGenAI #CaliforniaInnovation

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ The Joint California Summit on Generative AI is happening 5/29. Don't miss this opportunity to engage in thought-provoking conversations about the intersection of AI & society. Access the livestream, speaker line-up, & agenda: https://t.co/OzGk5P3hLu

Read more about CDSS' graduates and inaugural commencement ceremonies:

“I need you to know this. Because you are here. Because you persevered. Because you made it to this moment… you are and forever will be part of Team Data. And the world needs you now more than ever,” said @dpatil, keynote speaker and first-ever US Chief Data Scientist.

More than 2,200 @UCBerkeley undergraduate students earned their degree in data science, computer science or statistics this year!🎉 🎓 At the Berkeley CDSS' two inaugural commencements on Thursday, speakers lauded the students’ resilience: 🌐 https://t.co/KseLNwnqRI

California reached a major milestone today in implementing @CAgovernor GenAI Executive Order. 5 companies will begin working on a variety of projects w/state teams.

.@NASA astronaut @Astro_Jeanette will be taking questions from #RegeneronISEF finalists on Tuesday, May 14 from 12:30pm -12:55pm PDT. You won't want to miss this! https://t.co/Z4aWoRofvY

I’m excited to meet with the rest of the @Society4Science National Leadership Council at #RegeneronISEF! If you’re in the LA area and can help with interpretation in #Spanish or #Mandarian, please consider volunteering!

Entrepreneur, investor, #DataScientist, #PublicPolicy leader -- and our inaugural Dean's Senior Fellow @dpatil just announced as the @UCBerkeley College of Computing, Data Science, & Society (CDSS) 2024 undergraduate Commencement speaker 🎓🐻 🎉 #SaveTheDate #GoBears

WATCH: How can California leverage artificial intelligence for a resilient future? Feat. @JennC_Phillips @CalNatResources, @BauerKahan, Kate Dargan Marquis @MooreFound, Dave Korsmeyer @NASAAmes, @mmlee @UCBerkeley, @CAGovOps Amy Tong, @WadeCrowfoot. https://t.co/3l2JmZgBkO

✎ If you’re interested in being part of a Fifth #ClimateAssessment Synthesis Report Author Team, submit an Interest Form by 2/15. We encourage members of tribes, academia, local governments, non-government orgs, & community-based orgs to fill it out: https://t.co/A1l5duvGvT 📝

ICYMI: @UCJointCPH and @UCBerkeleySPH faculty Dr. Ziad Obermeyer testifies to Senate Finance Committee on AI use in health, how AI can target right people for right interventions, and likely harm without more oversight. From 53:57. https://t.co/Z8xSlVd4jv @oziadias #AI4H #CPH📺

Today's #AI + #DisasterResilience event with @CalNatResources @BauerKahan @MooreFound @NASAAmes @UCBerkeley @CAGovOps is the beginning of @CCSTorg 's S&T week: https://t.co/icKfDlSbUW -->