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Latest news from the alignAI doctoral network:
Introducing the Working Groups: alignAI Gets to Work!
On Friday, May 16th, the first alignAI Seasonal School concluded with a dynamic round of presentations by the Doctoral Candidates (DCs), marking the culmination of an intensive week of getting to know one another, learning and collaboration..
Q&A with DC Gökçe Şahin
What inspired you to join the alignAI project? Considering the inevitable involvement of AI tools in our lives, the alignAI project proposes a great opportunity
Kickstarting Responsible AI: alignAI Launches with a Week of Vision
From May 12–16, 2025, the alignAI consortium officially launched its activities with an intensive Kick-off and Seasonal School in Munich.
The Idiap Research Institute Opens Registration for the 14th Edition of the Idiap Create Challenge – Its 9-Day AI Hackathon
The Idiap Research Institute announces the opening of registrations for the 14th edition of the Idiap Create Challenge, a nine-day hackathon dedicated to artificial intelligence.
Q&A with DC Cen Lu
What inspired you to join the alignAI project? My previous work with LLMs opened my eyes to both their impressive capabilities and concerning limitations. While
Panel Discussion: “LLMs From a Socio-technical System Perspective”
As part of the first alignAI Seasonal School, Dr. Caitlin Corrigan, Executive Director at the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) and alignAI Project Lead, hosted an insightful panel discussion on May 14, 2025.
alignAI Kicks off at the TUM Think Tank: A Collaborative Start to a Vision for Ethical AI
On May 12, 2025, alignAI officially launched with a dynamic Kick-off Event at the TUM Think Tank in Munich.
Q&A with DC Julia Li
What inspired you to join the alignAI project? I was motivated to apply for the alignAI project because I believe in a world where advances
More Than Just a Chatbot? – Why We Keep Treating AI Like a Person, and Why That Might be a Problem!
Have you ever wished ChatGPT a good morning? Asked it to “please” do something for you? Or thanked it when it did? Now ask yourself
Trust Me, I’m an Algorithm – On Trust, Trustworthiness and the Trouble with Both
Imagine this: You’re in a courtroom and have been convicted of a crime. Before announcing the sentence, the judge consults a risk assessment tool –
Q&A with DC Simay Toplu
What inspired you to join the alignAI project? I’ve always been drawn to the intersection of technology and mental health. I have a background in
More Than Just Math – How Fairness is Being Approached in AI
In our last blog post, we unpacked what fairness in AI means, why it matters, and why technical fixes alone can not be enough to
“Fair Enough?” – Who Wins, Who Loses and Why AI Needs to do Better Than Just Working for Most
When people think about AI, they often imagine objectivity. They imagine algorithms that soberly follow data and numbers, unaffected by personal opinions, emotions, or prejudice.
Opening the Black Box – How AI Explainability Is Being Approached
In our last blog post, we established what explainability is and why it matters. Now comes the harder part: Figuring out how to make it
Can You Trust What You Don’t Understand? Why AI Needs to Explain Itself!
Most of the time, we don’t question the systems around us until they fail. When planes crash, treatments go wrong, or loans are denied, we
Making LLM Alignment Work – The Need for Collaborative Research
Ensuring that LLMs align with human values is not an easy task. Alignment is particularly challenging because human values are not static, universal, or easily
Why do LLMs Need Ethical Alignment? – The Risks of Misaligned AI.
“As machine-learning systems grow not just increasingly pervasive but increasingly powerful, we will find ourselves more and more often in the position of the ‘sorcerer’s
alignAI Project Opens Recruitment Phase for Doctoral Candidates
Exciting news! The alignAI project, an international research initiative focused on creating large language models (LLMs) ethically aligned with human values, is now recruiting doctoral candidates.
alignAI Project Officially Launched: Leading the Way in Value-Aligned Artificial Intelligence
We are very excited to announce the official launch of the alignAI project: value-ALIGNed socio-technical systems using large-language models (LLMs).