UC Berkeley Professional Education https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/ Leadership for Engineers, by Engineers Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:40:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/BE-favicon-100x100.png UC Berkeley Professional Education https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/ 32 32 A Nightmare on LLM Street: The Peril of Emergent Misalignment https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2026/03/a-nightmare-on-llm-street-the-peril-of-emergent-misalignment/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:47:09 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27562 Or: Has AI Now Sent the Human Hacker to the Unemployment Line Also? The Call is Coming from Inside the House In the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls, a babysitter terrorized by anonymous phone calls eventually learns the calls are originating from a second line inside the house she thought she was protecting.…

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]]> UC Berkeley Engineering Announces “The AI-Forward Professional” Microcourse to Help Working Professionals Outpace the AI Displacement Gap https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2026/02/ai-forward-professional/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:41:24 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27541 New five-week intensive focuses on “builder-first” productivity, allowing non-technical professionals to design AI workflows and build functional applications without coding. BERKELEY, CA — February 1, 2026 — The UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) today unveiled its latest executive education offering, The AI-Forward Professional. This five-week online microcourse is specifically engineered for…

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]]> UC Berkeley Engineering Launches “Becoming a CTO” Program to Bridge the Gap Between Technical Excellence and Executive Leadership https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2026/02/becoming-a-cto/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:30:38 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27536 New five-week “Practical Field Guide” microcourse provides senior engineers and technical founders with a proven operating system for the C-suite. BERKELEY, CA — February 1, 2026 — The UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) today announced the launch of Becoming a CTO: A Practical Field Guide, an intensive five-week microcourse designed to…

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]]> How UC scientists are putting AI to the test https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/how-uc-scientists-are-putting-ai-test Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:14:39 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27525 Nervous about artificial intelligence? You’re not alone: half of Americans now say they’re more concerned than excited about the ways AI is changing daily life. But most people surveyed also recognize that AI is changing some things for the better. Take science: with its ability to detect never-before-seen patterns in complex systems, AI is speeding the search for everything from new medicines to new galaxies.

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]]> 11 things AI experts are watching for in 2026 https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/11-things-ai-experts-are-watching-2026 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:13:49 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27523 In just a few years, AI has gone from a tech novelty to a society-altering force. It has revolutionized scientific research, classrooms and workplaces. People around the planet have turned to it to break through writer’s block and to contest parking tickets.

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]]> UC Berkeley SCET and Engineering Professional Education Launch AI Leadership Accelerator to Bridge the Executive Innovation Gap https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2026/02/uc-berkeley-scet-and-engineering-professional-education-launch-ai-leadership-accelerator-to-bridge-the-executive-innovation-gap/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:22:27 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27516 New three-day intensive empowers global leaders to move beyond AI hype and drive measurable business transformation through strategic implementation roadmaps.

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]]> AI Leadership: Perspectives from Academia and Venture on the Future of AI https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2026/02/ai-leadership-perspectives-from-academia-and-venture-on-the-future-of-ai/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:53:30 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27295 Rapid advancements in AI will continue to transform the ways in which we work and live. To understand the scope of its impact is complex, requiring an understanding of multiple perspectives that transcend both practice and research. As we continue to push the frontier of AI capabilities, it is critical to shape its trajectory with…

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]]> The Future of AI: It’s About Architecture https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2025/11/the-future-of-ai-its-about-architecture/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:50:52 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27258 Scaling: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally For much of the past decade, AI progress has been defined by scale: larger models trained on ever greater amounts of data and compute. The paradigm of “more parameters, better performance” has driven notable advances but is now showing signs of saturation. Empirical scaling laws, such as those identified…

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]]> AI’s Potential, Pitfalls, Policy, and Promise: A Conversation with Futurist and Strategist Olaf Groth https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2025/09/ais-potential-pitfalls-policy-and-promise-a-conversation-with-futurist-and-strategist-olaf-groth/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:14:08 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27219 No longer a distant frontier, the AI-driven shift will undoubtedly continue to redefine global economies, industries, and institutions, a transformation that calls for strategic leadership of executives and policymakers. In the coming years, it is imperative to design systems that harmonize AI capabilities with human judgement and champion ethical AI governance at this critical intersection…

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]]> Beyond ROI: Are We Using the Wrong Metric in Measuring AI Success? https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2025/09/beyond-roi-are-we-using-the-wrong-metric-in-measuring-ai-success/ https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/2025/09/beyond-roi-are-we-using-the-wrong-metric-in-measuring-ai-success/#respond Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:02:35 +0000 https://exec-ed.berkeley.edu/?p=27200 A Response to MIT’s “95% AI Failure” Study MIT’s recent report claiming that 95% of generative AI projects fail to deliver measurable return on investment has sent shockwaves through the business community. The study, “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025,” found that despite $30-40 billion in enterprise investment, 95% of organizations studied…

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