Our alignAI doctoral candidate Eva Paraschou presented her work “Mind the XAI Gap: A Human-Centered LLM Framework for Democratizing Explainable AI” at the “The 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence” held in Istanbul, Turkey (July 9-11, 2025).

The International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) conference, held in Helsinki, Finland, from June 10-13, 2025, gathered researchers and practitioners in the learning sciences.

The current progress and ongoing evolution of the AI industry do not parallel the ongoing efforts of the world in general and developing countries in particular, to stand steadfast against the challenges that AI brings with its evolution. As a doctoral candidate in the AlignAI Doctoral Network (MSCA), Mohaned Bahr participated as a special delegate at the AIFOD Forum Summer Summit. In this blog he reflects on the outcomes and discussions from the plenary sessions, roundtables and parallel side events.

What does it look like when we try to design the divine? How do we meditate with machines? These questions were the focus of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) Speaker Series on July 16, 2025, titled “Meditating With Machines: When Spiritual Symbols Meet Augmented Reality”, hosted by Prof. Patrick Hung, Professor at Ontario Tech University. Dr. Auxane Boch, Research Associate at the TUM IEAI and coordinator of the alignAI project, moderated the session. alignAI Doctoral Candidate Julia Li attended the session and reflected on the intersection between spirituality, culture and technology.