Nina BeguS

Hello!

My name is Nina Beguš and I'm a researcher and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. I'm affiliated with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS) and Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS).

I lead the Artificial Humanities Group where we focus on the intersection of humanities and AI across three research areas: cultural imaginary and social bias, narratology and writing creativity, and philosophy of science and technology.

I am a part of the Center for Contemporary Cultures of Text at Aarhus University, for which we have been awarded the Danish National Foundation Grant. I serve on the MLA Task Force group on world languages and generative AI.

Since 2020, I have collaborated with Brodie's group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our work is centered around a planetary perspective on information transfer, grounded in thermodynamics via the Earth system science approach.

Books

Consulting

I am the founder of InterpretAI, a consulting and product development company with a focus on understanding and interpretability of AI.

Previously, as a Senior Researcher at the Berggruen Institute and ToftH, I helped to implement a novel method of process-based consulting for startups (CSM) and big tech companies (Google, Meta, Microsoft).

I organized a symposium on Understanding AI through UC Berkeley's Social Science Matrix, aimed at bringing together research on interpretability from academia, industry, and think tanks. 

Residential Life

I've been involved in collegiate residential life since 2013, first as a Graduate Commons community advisor and then as a resident tutor in Mather House. I currently live in Bowles Hall, the oldest residential college in the U.S. (est. 1928).

Connect

I update this site regularly and would be happy to connect via email or social media.
Feel free to contact me through Društvo VTIS, where I serve as a mentor for Slovenians educated abroad.