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".
The Institute is proud to announce the launch of the AIRIS project (Mechanism-Informed Multimodal Generative AI for Causal and Dynamical Modelling in Biomedical Research), funded by the EU Horizon programme (Project No. 101289094), with total budget of €16.9 million, coordinated by ATHENA Research Center, with Dr. Alexander Kriebitz serving as lead representative and coordinator of the work package dedicated to ethics.
We are delighted to announce a new collaboration that marks the beginning of the next chapter of the MoralPLai Project. Together with the University of Bayreuth, Opferhilfe Oberfranken e.V. and Naturbühne Trebgast, the research-based theater play "The Third Voice" will be adapted into German and presented under the title "Die dritte Stimme".
Q&A with alignAI Project Leader Auxane Boch
The workshop “Legitimacy Conditions for AI in Democratic Participation" was held at The Responsible AI Forum on May 20th, 2026. Moderated by Dr. Catarina Fontes and Dr. Sachit Mahajan.
Beyond Preference-based Value-alignment by Julia Li
The Responsible AI Forum (TRAIF) 2026 opened with an Impulse Session, titled “What Are We Missing in Responsible AI Conversations?” on May 19th, 2026. Moderated by Dr. Auxane Boch, panel participants included Prof. Christoph Lütge, Prof. Mohammed Khalil, Prof. Anne-Elisabeth Courrier and Prof. Thomas Maak.
alignAI blog on the relevancy of the EU AI Act.
alignAI blog on the bias spillover effect in LLMs.
MoralPLai Documentary Premiere and Live Discussion at The Responsible AI Forum on May 20th, 2026. Moderated by Anastasia Arizi and Dr. Franziska Poszler, panel participants included Dr. Benjamin Lange, Eva Riekenbrauck and Denis Sedlmeier.
