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Bidirectional alignment: Co-evolving machine empathy and human wisdom

In person
  • Date
    10 July 2025
    Timeframe
    13:50 - 14:10 CEST
    Duration
    20 minutes
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    True AI alignment isn’t only about building machines that reliably serve humans—it’s about preparing humans to recognize when machines deserve moral concern. At AE Studio, we’re advancing alignment as a bidirectional challenge. On one side, we engineer prosociality into AI systems by shaping internal representations to foster empathy. On the other, we apply neuroscience-inspired methods to investigate whether advanced models exhibit structural markers of conscious experience—and what it would mean if they do.
     
    This session will share concrete tools and frameworks from our research that has shaped discussions at the White House and within top labs. Our future depends not only on building smarter, more empathic machines—but on cultivating wiser, more ethically attuned humans.