Name: 📣 Guest Talk: Distortion of AI Alignment, by Prof. Paul Gölz
Start: 2026-09-08T17:30:00.000-04:00
End: 2026-09-08T18:30:00.000-04:00
Location: CIS Building 350

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Cornell AI Alignment

Join Cornell AI Alignment for a guest talk by Prof. Paul Gölz on his NeurIPS 2025 paper, 

Distortion of AI Alignment: Does Preference Optimization Optimize for Preferences?

Modern AI systems are often aligned using methods like RLHF and DPO that learn from human preference data, but do these methods actually optimize for what people prefer? Prof. Gölz will discuss his work examining this question and what it means for how we think about preference optimization and AI alignment.

📣 Guest Talk: Distortion of AI Alignment, by Prof. Paul Gölz

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