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Symposium on Moral and Legal AI Alignment

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will host a joint conference at the University of Twente in July 2025.

As part of this multidisciplinary event, our symposium will focus on the pressing issue of aligning AI systems with moral and legal values. Bringing together experts in AI, moral philosophy, law, technology, and education, we aim to foster insightful discussions and collaborations to address the question:

"What is AI Alignment and according to what criteria should it be evaluated?"

Proceedings

Symposium proceedings can be downloaded from https://alignment.udk.ai/twente

Important Dates

14 March 2025: Submission of extended abstracts
31 March 2025: Notification of acceptance
19 May 2025: Reception of camera-ready copies of final papers
2 July 2025: Moral and Legal AI Alignment Symposium at IACAP/AISB-2025 Conference at the University of Twente, Netherlands

Camera-Ready Paper Guidelines

Instructions & LaTeX Template are available here https://www.overleaf.com/read/wxznszxdchnt

Submission Guidelines

We seek extended abstracts (1000-1500 words) that:

Address the question "What is AI Alignment?"
Focus on notions of moral and/or legal values
Combine theories and concepts with concrete practical or technical proposals
Reflect diverse cultural and disciplinary paradigms

Descriptions of reproducible best practices are highly appreciated.

Submit your proposal via Pretalx, selecting our Symposium in the "Session type" section.

Organizing Committee

Daniel D. Hromada (Berlin University of the Arts), Bertram Lomfeld (Freie Universität Berlin)

Program Committee

Christoph Benzmüller (Bamberg University), Felix Bießmann (Berliner Hochschule für Technik / Einstein Center Digital Future), Daniel D. Hromada (Berlin University of the Arts), Bertram Lomfeld (Freie Universität Berlin)

Additional Information

Conference Website: iacapconf.org
Host Organisation Websites: IACAP.org, AISB.org.uk
Symposium Website: alignment.udk.ai

Symposium Contact: alignment@udk.ai

MALAIA_Plan

During the first part of our symposium, the problem of „moral“ alignment defined as „functional isomorphism between moral values, opinions and intentions of an AI system and those of its human creators“ will be addressed.

The second part of the symposium will aim to build and reinforce bridges between computing and law. Technical aspects of aligning AI systems to different legal systems and ontologies will be thematized, and should it turn out that such a „legal alignment“ is a real possibility, philosophical, ethical and societal implications of such alignment will be discussed.

In both „moral“ as well as „legal“ components of the symposium, special care will be taken to establish balance between theoretical / philosophical and applied / evidence-driven contributions. Beyond classical presentation format, there will be at least one more interactive session either in form of a panel debate with audience voting or so-called „fishbowl discussion“.

Additionally, a workshop „Moral alignment of open source small language models“ will be proposed to provide hands-on experience to anyone interested in the topic.

MALAIA_Timeline

28 February 2025 :: Submission of abstracts / full papers by authors.
24 March 2025 :: Notification of acceptance.
17 May 2025 :: Reception of camera-ready copies of final papers.
1 to 3 July 2025 :: IACAP/AISB-2025 Conference at the University of Twente.

MALAIA_Handbook

Symposium organizer handbook.

From 'Benevolence' to 'Nature': Moral Ordinals, Axiometry and Alignment of Values in Small Instruct Language Models