During the first part of our symposium, the problem of „moral“ alignment defined as „functional isomorphism between moral values, opinions and intentions of an AI system and those of its human creators“ will be addressed.

The second part of the symposium will aim to build and reinforce bridges between computing and law. Technical aspects of aligning AI systems to different legal systems and ontologies will be thematized, and should it turn out that such a „legal alignment“ is a real possibility, philosophical, ethical and societal implications of such alignment will be discussed.

In both „moral“ as well as „legal“ components of the symposium, special care will be taken to establish balance between theoretical / philosophical and applied / evidence-driven contributions. Beyond classical presentation format, there will be at least one more interactive session either in form of a panel debate with audience voting or so-called „fishbowl discussion“. 

Additionally, a workshop „Moral alignment of open source small language models“ will be proposed to provide hands-on experience to anyone interested in the topic.