Human-aligned AI
Summer School

Speakers | Registration | Program | Organizers

The sixth Human-aligned AI Summer School will be held in Prague from 13^th to 16^th July 2026. Four intensive days of talks, workshops, and discussions covering current questions in AI alignment research and the broader framings that shape them.

Format of the school

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.

Some topics of 2026:

• Arguments for AI risk revisited: We will revisit the classical arguments for AI risk and importance of alignment: risks from discontinuities, mesa-optimization, scheming – examining how each has fared against a decade of evidence, how the existing solutions look and how they may scale.
• Post-training and alignment strategies today: We will examine what frontier AI post-training actually consists of today: character training, mid-training, and RLVR.
• Understanding AIs: How we can understand current AIs using different approaches and levels of abstraction ranging from mechanistic interpretability to LLM psychology.
• Representational alignment: We will examine work on convergence of internal representations across capable systems – including the Natural Abstraction, Platonic Representation Hypothesis and related lines of inquiry.
• Complex systems alignment: AI systems do not exist in isolation, but are part of a more complex ecosystem of both human and artificial agents and institutions. What does the alignment relation mean in this context? How do we align the post-AGI civilization?

The program is subject to change.

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 will consist of lectures and topical series, focused smaller-group workshops and discussions, expert panels, and opportunities for networking, project brainstorming and informal discussions.

Speakers

Speakers for HAAISS 2026 will be announced soon – please check back for updates.

In the meantime, you can get a sense of the school by watching talks from HAAISS 2025:

Registration and fees

Applications for HAAISS 2026 are open. Apply here. Applications are evaluated on a rolling basis.

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.

Proposing workshop sessions

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.

Preliminary Program

The detailed schedule will be announced closer to the event – please check the website for updates.

Most of the program is held at the venue, Břehová 78/7, Praha 1.

Sunday, July 12

Monday, July 13

Tuesday, July 14

Wednesday, July 15

Thursday, July 16

Friday, July 17

No official program. Coordination for any unofficial post-school program, e.g. participant-led sessions and coworking, as well as excursions.

Venues and catering

The school is held at Břehová 78/7, Praha 1 (Faculty of Nuclear Sciences & Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University).

Catered lunch, coffee breaks, and light breakfast are provided during the conference days. Vegan options available. All the school events are covered by the registration fee.

Organizers

Program: Tomáš Gavenčiak, Jan Kulveit, Vojtěch Kovařík, and Ondřej Bajgar
Project management: Anna Gajdová
Operations: Viktorie Havlíčková and Veronika Hendrychová
Organized by Alignment of Complex Systems research and Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Prague

📧 Contact us at haaiss@acsresearch.org