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Mahendra Prasad, a UC Berkeley political science PhD candidate, recently published a chapter in the first textbook on artificial intelligence safety, Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security (2018). Other chapter contributors include AI luminaries such as Samy Bengio, Nick Bostrom, Edward Frenkel, Ian Goodfellow, Bill Joy, Ray Kurzweil, Francesca Rossi, Max Tegmark, and many others. On Amazon, the paperback edition sold out on its first day...

Graduate Alumna Nina Hagel's article, “Alternative Authenticities: Thinking Transgender Without Essence,” won APSA's Susan Okin-Iris Young Award for Best Paper in Feminist Political Theory. The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory, co-sponsored by Women and Politics, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science, commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development...