Berkeley AI Research - BAIR

06/11/2026

Congratulations to BAIR alumnus Deepak Pathak who has been awarded the PAMI Young Researcher in Computer Vision Award.

This top award for young researchers in computer vision is given to two recipients yearly.

Deepak Pathak is the seventh Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research affiliated awardee in the last seven years. Other awardees include Angjoo Kanazawa (2024), Judy Hoffman (2023), Bharath Hariharan (2022), Georgia Gkioxari (2021), Phillip Isola (2021), and Jon Barron (2020).

Computer Vision Awards The computer vision community gives out a variety of awards at major vision meetings. These awards are explained below, with a complete listing of winners for each following. Career Awards PAMI Young Researcher Award PAMI Thomas S. Huang Memorial Prize PAMI Mark Everingham Pri...

03/03/2026

AI can feel sudden. Disruptive. Everywhere at once.

For Cal Professor Stuart Russell, the questions began long before the headlines.

As co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, he helped define how generations of students learn the field. In Human Compatible, he brought the challenge of AI alignment into public debate. In Provably Beneficial Artificial Intelligence, he examined how to design systems that are safe by construction.

Last year, EECS Professor Russell was awarded the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, honoring his work on the conceptual foundations of provably beneficial AI and his leadership in building the field of AI safety.

His research challenges a long-standing assumption in AI: that machines should optimize fixed objectives. Instead, he proposes treating AI as an “assistance game,” systems designed to support human interests while remaining uncertain about them.

As conversations around regulation and safety accelerate, the thinking behind them has been unfolding at Cal for decades.

The technology may feel new. The questions guiding it are not.

12/07/2024

As part of the BAIR Computer Vision Workshop, a panel of alumni spanning 30 years of computer vision history at Berkeley, moderated by Lisa Dunlap.

10/04/2023

In one hour, Prof. Anca Dragan will present the third distinguished lecture on the status and future of AI, on "AI Agents That Do What We Want: Progress and Challenges."

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Researchers used to define objectives for artificial intelligence (AI) agents by hand, but with progress in optimization and reinforcement learning, it becam...

09/12/2023

Join the first Distinguished Lecture on the Status and Future of AI on Wednesday at 12pm PT.

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Microsoft's Jaron Lanier presents "Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI" on Sept. 13, in the Banatao Auditorium. This seminar will be livestreamed.

09/01/2023

Join us in an exciting series of distinguished lectures on The Status and Future of AI featuring Jaron Lanier, Alison Gopnik, Anca Dragan and Timnit Gebru.

Register for attending in-person or online: https://citris-uc.org/news-events/citris-research-exchange

08/24/2023

Berkeley AI researchers developed a novel brain implant that just enabled a paralyzed woman speak after 18 years!

The brain activity of a paralyzed woman is being translated into words spoken by an avatar. This milestone could help others who have lost speech.

05/09/2023

Berkeley joins the NSF-backed AI institute for cybersecurity, with five BAIR faculty members joining the executive committee

Five faculty members part of executive committee