At the end of April, eleven fellows traveled to UC Berkeley and the larger Bay Area, or participated virtually, to attend a week of meetings with key California policymakers, Berkeley faculty members, ...

Brain Type, the Spring 2025 James R. Chen Award-winning project by Master of Information Management and Systems students Aaron Rodden, Kal Walker, Kimberley Soriano, Omkar Hanamsagar, and Prajakta ...

SafeWalk, by Master of Information and Data Science students Helen Hu, Ke Zhang, Kris Junghee Lee, and Ula Zhu, aims to help visually impaired people navigate the streets safely with timely audio ...

VR test-taking study measuring EA, HR, and fatigue to explore how immersive environments affect stress and focus.

Berkeley Researchers Discover That People Are Poorly Equipped To Detect AI-Powered Voice Clones, Develop New Deepfake Dataset ...

FairVoice explores fair, accurate deepfake detection — working toward equitable performance across voices and identities.

Problem & Motivation In October 2022, ProPublica reported allegations that RealPage’s Revenue Management software contributes to rising rental prices by facilitating algorithmic collusion among ...

A number of AI video generators, mostly released by Chinese companies, lack the most basic guardrails that prevent people from generating nonconsensual nudity and pornography, and are already widely ...

RealEyes.ai, by recent Master of Information and Cybersecurity alums John Olmos, Jonathan Weiss, Sannan Iqbal, and Vassilis Tzavaras is a tool designed to detect and analyze deepfakes and ...

In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the name of national security. Xiao Qiang, a research ...

UC Berkeley School of Information assistant professor Niloufar Salehi has partnered with University of Southern California professor Afshin Nikzad and entrepreneur Steven Mih to launch Across AI, a ...

From 404 Media ‘Minion Gore’ Videos Use AI to Post Murder to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube By Emanuel Maiberg People are using the popular AI video generator Runway to make real videos of murder look ...