Cameron Allen, Ph.D., is a research scientist at the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) at UC Berkeley. He uses computation to investigate fundamental questions about intelligence, meaning, perception, and preferences. Broadly, he is interested in how AI systems and people decide what is important and how to represent it in their cognitive architectures. He works to build AI systems that can support us in our ongoing efforts to discover what we truly care about, which includes helping us notice when the maps we've constructed are actually leading us astray. He dreams of a future where people and AI can work together to deepen our understanding of the world and of each other. Learn more at his website.
Summit 2026
Friday ·
4:30pm – 5:30pm
Salon
The Couch
A provocation and discussion about how we might build machines that recognize when their mental representations (or ours) don't match reality.
Saturday ·
7:00pm – 7:45pm
Fireside
The Couch
Researchers working on representation, multi-agent systems and evaluation on the experiments that would move the field, and the ones nobody is running.