UC San Diego has announced the Center for Principled Agentic Intelligence, a partnership between its Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing and School of Arts and Humanities. The university's October 28 announcement says the center will study how increasingly autonomous AI systems can be evaluated and kept responsive to human goals. Sources: UC San Diego announces agentic intelligence center.
Its two initial research initiatives address AI alignment and society, and independent evaluation of agentic systems. Researchers plan an open-source testbed for assessing performance on complex tasks. UC San Diego says the launch has $1 million in support over three years, with another $250,000 in shared computing resources. Sources: UC San Diego announces agentic intelligence center.
Compiled by San Diego Sentinel Staff with AI assistance from the linked public records. First published October 29, 2026 08:08 -07:00 (Pacific time).