On 3-4 November 2025, Doctoral Candidates Katerina Drakos and Eva Paraschou participated in the AI in Science Summit 2025 (AIS25) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The summit served as a premier gathering for scientists, industry leaders, investors and policymakers to discuss how AI is revolutionising scientific discovery and how Europe can spearhead this shift through a responsible, values-driven approach.

In this interview, we speak with Santiago Hurtado, M.Ed., research assistant and doctoral student at TUM. He discusses what drew him to alignAI, the perspective his institute contributes, and how he supports doctoral candidates while giving them room to pursue their own ideas.

In this video interview, we speak with Dr. Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt, Senior Researcher at the Capital Region of Denmark. She discusses how the mental health use case within alignAI can lead to practical outcomes, reflects on supervising PhD researchers working across clinical and technical domains and shares a message for those outside academia who are concerned about the future of AI.

On 13 February 2026, the IEAI co-hosted with Amerikahaus an official side event of the Munich Security Conference 2026 titled “Ctrl-Alt-Deterrence: Rethinking Stability in the Age of Cyber, AI and Autonomy”. The panel brought together leaders from defense, academia, policy and industry to explore how artificial intelligence and autonomous systems are reshaping deterrence theory and practice.

In this video interview, we speak with Professor Jesse Benjamin, Assistant Professor in Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. He shares how his work in design research and human-centred AI contributes to the alignAI network, reflects on supervising PhD researchers across design and machine learning and discusses his hopes for shaping AI systems that better reflect societal values and public concerns.