JuliaHP

Applications for the Winter 2027 AFFINE Alignment Seminar are now open! The Seminar will take place in southern Portugal over the course of January. If you are excited to grapple with the philosophical foundations of our field and to refine your thinking through carefully designed workshops, conversations with leading experts, and peer-driven learning, apply now! Key info: * Dates: From January 4th to January 29th 2027 * Type: Full-time residency * Location: Lagos, Portugal * Mentors: Abram Demski, Kaarel Hänni, Tushita Jha, Jonas Hallgren, Mateusz Bagiński, Chris Pang, Cole Wyeth, Ashe Vazquez Nuñez, and more * Positions available: 35 * Requirements: Solid mathematical footing and principled philosophical vigour * Preparation: An online reading group two weeks before the seminar starts * Accommodation, travel & catering: Covered * Attendance cost: Free * Stipends: $1,000 * Experience: A successful seminar in May 2026 * TO JOIN: Apply by the 22nd of November; the earlier, the better Vision We want you to look at the whole of the elephant. Not individual disconnected methods, not theoretical frameworks as they apply solely to machine learning. We think that catastrophic trouble can lie in the gaps between those building blocks and that the field desperately requires more people with a deep, holistic, generator-level model of what AI-Risk and Alignment are all about. Modern Agent Foundations research will play a large role here, though it isn’t the whole of the story. “How do we ensure that generally intelligent systems, now and in the future, are beneficial to the moral ambitions of humanity?” It’s not a computer science question, even if computer science will be necessary for the implementation details. The answers needed before one gets to coding are about the nature of intelligence, about the attributes of complex systems which constitute morality, and about what it means to empower a species that disagrees with itself. These are problems regardi