On May 19th, 2026, Juliet Arthur presented on behalf of Generative AI, LLMs and Societal Value Alignment track travel grant winner Ama Branoa Banful at the 2026 The Responsible AI Forum (TRAIF) held at Amerikahaus in Munich. During the AI Governance in Institutional and Regulatory Contexts session, Ms. Arthur presented: “Governing the Use of Generative AI in Public and Civic Decision-Making Contexts”.

On May 19th, 2026, David Torabi presented on behalf of Generative AI, LLMs and Societal Value Alignment track travel grant winner Darius Torabi at the 2026 The Responsible AI Forum (TRAIF) held at Amerikahaus in Munich. During the Philosophical and Technical Foundations of Value Alignment session, Mr. Torabi presented: “Why Shared Values Are Hard to Share”.

On May 19th, 2026, Generative AI, LLMs and Societal Value Alignment track travel grant winner Dr. Youngsam Chun presented at the 2026 The Responsible AI Forum (TRAIF) held at Amerikahaus in Munich. During the Philosophical and Technical Foundations of Value Alignment session, Dr. Chun presented: “MORAL-GRAPH: A Geometric and Graph-based Framework for Human-LLM Value Alignment”.

From the end of March to beginning of June 2026, TUM IEAI DC Julia Li completed a research secondment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands.

In this video interview, we speak with Julia Li, doctoral candidate in the alignAI project at the Technical University of Munich Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. She introduces herself and her research on human values and AI alignment, explaining what inspired her to join alignAI and which aspects of aligning AI with human values she finds most compelling.

The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) took place in San Diego from 2–7 July 2026. As one of the leading international conferences in natural language processing, ACL brought together researchers from around the world to exchange ideas on large language models, AI safety, alignment, evaluation and other emerging directions in language technologies. alignAI Doctoral Candidate Yung-Chen Tang attended the conference and presented the paper “Why LLM Safety Guardrails Collapse After Fine-tuning: A Similarity Analysis Between Alignment and Fine-tuning Datasets”.