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.

In this video interview, we speak with Professor Stephan Wensveen, Professor of Transformative Design at Eindhoven University of Technology. He discusses his approach to guiding and supervising PhD candidates, how his work connects design research with emerging technologies and what message he believes should be shared with those outside academia who are concerned about the future of AI.

In this video interview, we speak with Professor Line Clemmensen, Professor of Machine Learning at the Technical University of Denmark. She shares what her team contributes to the project, her approach to supervising PhD candidates, and how she helps them grow in both technical expertise and ethical responsibility.

In this video interview, we speak with Assistant Professor Sneha Das, a researcher at DTU whose work focuses on trustworthy AI and responsible data driven systems. She discusses the perspective her institute contributes to the project, and how the program can guide policy and public understanding related to AI and alignment.

The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), was held from 2-7 December 2025 in San Diego. Our alignAI doctoral candidate Candidate Cen Lu attended and presented his poster “Chain-of-Model Learning for Language Model” at the poster session.

As part of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) Speaker Series, a December 2025 session focused on young adults and generative AI. The talk, titled “AI-nxiety & AI-gency: Young Adults Navigating Generative AI” was delivered by Dr. Jaimee Stuart, Senior Researcher and Team Lead at United Nations University Macau.