Brandie Nonnecke

UC Berkeley recently launched The Artificial Intelligence, Platforms, and Society Project, a collaboration between the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, or BCLT, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute, or CITRIS, policy lab.

For Rich Jaroslovsky, vice president of content for Smart News and adjunct faculty in the campus media studies department, there is one big question in terms of media presence in today’s elections:

The UC Board of Regents received public criticism on the lack of student voices in their voting process and discussed standardized testing and artificial intelligence during their final day of meetings Thursday.

Facial recognition, search engines, social media algorithms, ad recommendations and robots are rooted in a technology that is present in nearly all aspects of daily life: artificial intelligence.