Unlocking AI's Potential: The Truth About Llama 3.1

Meta's revolutionary release of Llama 3.1, an open-source frontier AI model, is sparking innovation and stirring debate.

While Llama 3.1 allows developers globally to harness this transformative AI tool to propel innovation, its use in the wrong hands fuels the creation of harmful deepfakes and automates cyber-attacks.

Join us as we begin to discuss the implications of open-source frontier AI models and the technical and legal strategies to safeguard their use.

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Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is founding director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley. She is an associate research professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), where she directs the Tech Policy Initiative, a collaboration between CITRIS and GSPP to strengthen tech policy education, research and impact. Nonnecke is the director of Our Better Web, a program that supports empirical research, policy analysis, training and engagement to address the sharp rise of online harms. She also co-directs the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub, an interdisciplinary initiative training researchers to develop effective AI governance and policy frameworks.

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