Artificial Intelligence Community

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The mission of the Artificial Intelligence Community (AIC) is to bring state experts together in shaping the future of ethical, transparent, and trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI).

AI has the potential to create significant opportunities for government transformation, enabling greater efficiency while improving the accuracy and effectiveness of decision-making and service delivery. 

AI Community Meetings

See what’s upcoming for the AIC, find past meeting information, and check out our FAQ

GenAI Executive Order

Learn about the GenAI Executive Order (EO), review EO deliverables, and more

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Upcoming Events

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Time: 9:30am-11:00am PDT
Guest Speaker: Anirban Sen, Senior Product Manager, California Department of Technology and Yiannis Theodorou, Senior Advisor & Global Lead – Digital Identity, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Topic: Digital Identity and AI

Please subscribe to CDT’s AI community to attend.

Past Events

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Guest Speaker: Fernando Pérez, Associate Professor of Statistics at UC Berkeley, a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the current Faculty Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at UC Berkeley (BIDS)

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Guest Speaker: Dr. Safiya Noble, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at UCLA; Professor of Gender Studies, Information Studies, African American Studies; Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice; Interim Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative Topic: Algorithmic Discrimination and Technology Bias in the World of AI

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Guest Speaker: Bob Kasenchak, Information Architect at Factor
Topic: Uses, Abuses, and Risks: an Information Science Perspective on GenAI

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Guest Speaker: Dr. Lauren Sanders – Project Scientist for the NASA Open Science Data Repository and the Lead of the Artificial Intelligence for Life in Space working group
Topics: NASA real-world use cases that cover the full spectrum of AI

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Guest Speaker: Brandie Nonnecke, PhD – Director, CITRIS Policy Lab; Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; Host of TecHype
Topics: Primer on AI and what it is, e.g. traditional AI vs. generative AI; A look at what goes into developing AI strategies using CA, WA, and the UC system as case studies

January 11, 2024

Guest Speaker: Lake Dai – Founder of Sancus Ventures, Adjunct Professor of Applied AI at Carnegie Mellon University
Topics: AI Use Cases, Risks, Governance, and Collaborative Development