Jodi Halpern

Jodi Halpern is a MD/PhD, Professor of Bioethics at UC Berkeley, and an international leader on empathy and the ethics of technology including AI and neurotechnology. Her book, From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice, catalyzed a wave of change in medicine. Her recent articles and planned book, “Engineering Empathy,” investigate AI and therapeutic relationships. Jodi co-directs UC Berkeley’s Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public. She speaks in settings ranging from the Davos World Economic Forum to NPR. Jodi received the Guggenheim Award for Remaking the Self in the Wake of Illness. At Mesa, Jodi worked on the final chapter of Remaking the Self, which links illness and disability activism with social movements (i.e., the reproductive rights and Black Lives Matter movements) that have sprung from empathic recognition of collective grief. Jodi is a Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow.