A Conversation on Compassion and AI with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi
Kailash Satyarthi is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Satyarthi Movement for Global Compassion. For over four decades, he has dedicated his life to championing the freedom, dignity, and dreams of the world’s most vulnerable, transforming moral conviction into large-scale, systemic change. His leadership has shaped international norms, national legislation, and global movements committed to justice, equity, and human dignity.
Satyarthi is the architect of the Global Campaign for Education and led the movement that helped secure the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act in India in 2009. He also founded GoodWeave International, pioneering child labor-free certification and promoting ethical supply chains.
In his latest book – Karuna: The Power of Compassion – Satyarthi challenges the idea that compassion is passive. Grounded in deep awareness of ourselves and others, compassion can compel individuals to transform entrenched systems. It is this disruptive power of compassion that Satyarthi seeks to bring to the dialogue on AI: a call to steer away from potential catastrophe and toward the service of humanity.
Hosted by the UC College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, in collaboration with the Satyarthi Movement for Global Compassion and Arete Youth Academy.
Discussion to follow. Panelists include:
Stuart Russell, professor of computer science, UC Berkeley
Jennifer Chayes, dean, UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Rose Niousha, Ph.D. student in computer science, UC Berkeley
Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder, Satyarthi Movement for Global Compassion