Stockholm Colloquium in Philosophy: Ruth Chang (Oxford)

Artificial Intelligence and Value Alignment

Lecture

Date:

Thursday 30 October 2025

Time:

16.00 – 17.30

Location:

D289

Abstract

What might philosophers contribute to the 'value alignment' problem in artificial intelligence?  This is the problem, roughly speaking, of aligning machine outputs with human values. In this talk, I outline a conceptual framework for making progress on this problem, diagnosing ways in which I believe technologists who confront the problem go wrong and offering a proposal for designing machine systems that I argue is a sine qua non for machine-human value alignment.