Alignment needs your major.

  • Value alignment
  • Oversight
  • Interpretability
  • Evals
  • Debate

00 Value alignment

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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Three vectors

Read the papers, design the agents, and debate.

I write code

  1. Fundamentals
  2. Research Fellowship

I work on policy, law or economics

  1. Fundamentals
  2. Policy Reading Group

I think about minds, ethics or philosophy

  1. Fundamentals
  2. Singularity Club

Fundamentals, the Research Fellowship and the Policy Reading Group are all closed for the fall. All three open again in spring 2027.

How to apply

Fall 2026