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Join us for a fascinating talk on empathy, ethics, and artificial intelligence (AI) with Dr. Jodi Halpern, Chancellor's Chair, Professor of Bioethics, and co-founder and director of The Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public at UC Berkeley. 

Jodi Halpern MD, PhD, Chancellor’s Chair and Professor of Bioethics at UC Berkeley, is an international leader on empathy in healthcare and the ethics of innovative technologies including AI, gene editing and neurotechnology. Halpern’s book, From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice catalyzed a wave of change in medicine.  Her book, Remaking the Self in the Wake of Illness (expected 2025) illuminates post-traumatic growth.  Her newest project Engineering Empathy examines AI and therapeutic relationships. Halpern co-founded and co-directs the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public and the Berkeley Group on the Ethics and Regulation of Innovative Technologies. Halpern advises NGOs, companies, and governments.  She speaks in settings ranging from the Davos World Economic Forum to NPR to CBS News. Halpern received the Guggenheim 2022 Award in Medicine and Health.  See Jodihalpern.com

This event is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Mountain View Library.