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.

  • Recruitment-week social on Wed 26 to Sun 30 Aug
  • Applications close on Fri 4 Sep
Fundamentals applicationResearch Fellowship applicationPolicy Reading Group interestEditorial Team application

Join us in the Discord or on the mailing list.

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

One application, whichever route you take. We read your answers and place you into a track from them.

How to apply

Fall 2026

Applications close on Fri 4 Sep.

Fundamentals applicationResearch Fellowship applicationPolicy Reading Group interestEditorial Team application

AI Alignment @ Illinois

Registered Student Organization at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior cohorts have run. This is the Fall 2026 structure.

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  • AI Alignment @ Illinois is a registered student organization. It is independent of and autonomous from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is not a unit or agent of the university, and does not speak for it.
  • Events are organized by students and are not sponsored by the university. Room names are given for location only and imply no endorsement.
  • Funded by Kairos.