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Latest news from the alignAI doctoral network:
When Algorithms Meet the Mind: AI, Mental Health & Ethics
On 7 May 2026, alignAI doctoral candidate Simay Toplu was an invited guest lecturer at Technical University of Munich as part of Prof. Christoph Lütge’s course on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
The Oracle Speaks in Declaratives: When Confident Answers Obscure the Need for Interpretation
For decades, human-computer interaction was built on a comfortable assumption: people click, systems respond and the boundaries are clear. A button is a button, a menu is a menu. When things go wrong, you can often spot the missing step, the frozen cursor, the bad modal window.
Value Alignment and Craft in AI Education at CHI 2026 Barcelona
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems took place in Barcelona 13–17 April, 2026. alignAI doctoral candidate Tuan-Ting Huang attended the conference and presented a poster titled “Workmanship of Learning: Embedding Craftsmanship Values in AI-Integrated Educational Tools”, proposing a value-oriented framework for design education in the age of AI.
Understanding the Role of “AI Friends” in Children’s Sociocognitive Development
For years, the industry has focused on making models bigger. This training time scaling (Kaplan et al., 2020) made models highly fluent, similar to a student who memorised the entire textbook. But fluency is not the same as reasoning. Large language models (LLMs) still struggle with complex logic, maths or coding tasks because they respond too quickly, predicting the next word without truly thinking (McCoy et al., 2023).
From GUI to CUI: Why Evaluation Must Catch Up With the Interface Revolution
For decades, human-computer interaction was built on a comfortable assumption: people click, systems respond and the boundaries are clear. A button is a button, a menu is a menu. When things go wrong, you can often spot the missing step, the frozen cursor, the bad modal window.
Q&A with PI Andrea Cavallaro
In this video interview, we speak with Andrea Cavallaro, Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. He introduces himself and his work, presents his doctoral candidates and their research, and explains what motivated him to join the alignAI project.