AI Alignment @ IllinoisAI Alignment
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Alignment needs your major.

A registered student organization at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, running six tracks on making advanced AI systems safe, from first principles to independent research and AI governance, open to all majors.

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NewRead our first newsletter of the semester.

Three vectors

Read the papers, design the agents, and debate.

I write code

Fundamentals → Research Fellowship

I work on policy, law or economics

Fundamentals → Policy Reading Group

I think about minds, ethics or philosophy

Fundamentals → Singularity Club

The Policy Reading Group is still taking applications. Fundamentals and the Research Fellowship open again in spring 2027.

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Fall 2026

Vals AI talk: how frontier models get benchmarked, with Nikil Ravi (Math & CS '23) on Wed 9 Sep.

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