Anca Dragan

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Director, AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind

Faculty at UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI

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Anca Dragan (UC Berkeley)

Published on Oct 15, 2015

 

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Anca Dragan: human-robot interaction and reward engineering | AI Podcast #81 with Lex Fridman

Mar 19, 2020

Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction -- algorithms that look beyond the robot's function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for interaction and coordination with human beings. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

 

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Google DeepMind’s Anca Dragan on Safety, Agents and Waymo’s Growth | AI in Motion

Mar 4, 2026

Anca Dragan is no stranger to Waymo. She worked with us for six years while also at UC Berkeley and now, Google DeepMind. Her focus on making AI safer helped Waymo as it launched commercially. In this final episode of our season, Anca describes how her work enables AI agents to work fluently with people, based on human goals and values.

Each episode, Waymo AI distinguished engineer Vincent Vanhoucke invites a new AI expert to join him for coffee and an insightful backseat conversation in between. These deep-dive, long-form episodes will explore hot topics in the AI world, like safety, foundation models, VLAs and generalization.