Speakers | Registration | Organizers
The fifth Human-aligned AI Summer School will be held in Prague from 22nd to 25th July 2025. We will meet for four intensive days of talks, workshops, and discussions covering latest trends in AI alignment research and broader framings of AI alignment research.
The school is focused on teaching and exploring approaches and frameworks, less on presentation of the latest research results. The content of the school is mostly technical – it is assumed the attendees understand current ML approaches and some of the underlying theoretical frameworks.
We expect the talks of this year to cluster around three themes:
The first alignment problem – how to align individual AI systems with their developers. Including
approaches like interpretability, scalable oversight, or representational alignment.
The second alignment problem – how to align human civilization with human interests. Topics here may
include risks of gradual disempowerment, economics and models of recursive self-improvement, and similar.
Also, we discuss theories of agency: modelling agents is increasingly important as state-of-art AI systems are
becoming more agentic.
The intended audience of the school are researchers interested in learning more about the AI alignment topics, PhD students, researchers working in ML/AI outside academia, and talented students. It is recommended that the participants have a basic general understanding of the AI alignment problem, although the school does not assume deep knowledge of the topics.
The school consists of lectures and topical series, focused
smaller-group workshops and discussions, expert panels, and
opportunities for networking, project brainstorming and informal
discussions.
A detailed program will be announced shortly before the event. See
the program of the previous school
for an illustration of the program content and structure.
The lectures from the previous school are available on YouTube.
We are in the process of confirming speakers and will update the list over time. Our past speakers include researchers from Google DeepMind, Anthropic,University of Cambridge, Future of Humanity Institute, UC Berkeley, MIRI, and others. See e.g. the list of speakers from the previous school.
Applications for the summer school are open.
We recommend applying early, as applications are evaluated on a rolling basis and capacity is limited. In particular, we expect to fill most spaces in the second half of June.
The price of the school is EUR 300 with a discounted price of EUR 150 for students and independent researchers, and includes full catering and conference events.
We have a limited number of scholarships for participants from disadvantaged backgrounds and in difficult situations, covering the price of the school and partially subsidizing travel and accommodation costs. If you require financial support to attend the school, please indicate this in your application and we will contact you with an application for support.
The school will have several smaller-group workshop sessions, consisting of presenting new topics, interactive activities, and discussion on narrower or technical topics, offered by both invited speakers and selected participants of the school.
If you are interested in presenting a workshop, please send us a brief description of the workshop content (about half a page) along with the intended format and target audience, noting your expertise within the area. Note that the expectation is not to necessarily present your own work, but rather to provide content and activities that enrich the school for other participants. If we think your workshop is a good fit we will get back to you and discuss the content of the workshop in more detail and help you refine it for the school.
Program:
Tomáš Gavenčiak, Jan Kulveit, and Vojtěch Kovařík
Operations:
Hana Kalivodová, Kristina Barnett, and Viktorie Havlíčková
Organized by
Alignment of Complex Systems research
and
Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University,
Prague
📧 Contact us at haaiss@acsresearch.org