GENIUS membres organised a workshop on “Meaningful Human-AI Interaction: Value Alignment“ at the Digital Society Conference 2025.

Value alignment aims to ensure that AI systems behave in ways that respect human values. Most LLMs, such as those developed by OpenAI, undergo value alignment before release through reinforcement learning from human feedback. However, in current practice, users are treated as little more than anonymous annotators—replaceable and disposable. We believe users can and should play a more meaningful role in aligning LLMs.

This workshop brings together researchers from LLMs, human-computer interaction, ethics, and healthcare to discuss user roles in LLM alignment. We choose AI research assistant as a case study and participants will engage in a conversation sharing their experiences and discussing human roles in aligning LLMs with their needs and values.”

The Digital Society (DiSo) programme “focuses on answering the many scientific and societal questions raised by the emergence of a digital society. All Dutch universities participate in the programme, which promotes interdisciplinarity around this urgent societal theme. Cooperation is actively sought with societal partners, through consultations, (team science) projects/tables and through the annual conference. The DiSo programme is organised interdisciplinarily around themes that suit the participating scientists.” More: https://www.thedigitalsociety.info/about/