MAI

Joe Edelman

Founder & Director

Joe focuses on meaning alignment for AI systems and social technologies, working to ensure these systems support what truly matters to people.

AI, markets, and democracies aligned with what truly matters.

Research

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Market Intermediaries

blog post

What are Human Values?

paper

Model Integrity

report

Democratic Fine-tuning

blog post

About

The Meaning Alignment Institute researches how to align AI, markets, and democracies with what people value. We call this full-stack alignment.

Collaborating with 30+ experts, we advance full-stack alignment research from theory to practice. We're a non-profit supported by ARIA, OpenAI, SFF, and others.

Want to help? Reach us at hello@meaningalignment.org

Research Network

  • Tan Zhi Xuan
  • Atoosa Kasirzadeh
  • Michiel Bakker
  • Sydney Levine
  • MH Tessler
  • Jobst Heitzig
  • Bryce Goodman
  • Andrew Koh
  • Wes Holliday
  • Matija Franklin
  • Fazl Barez
  • Philip Tomei
  • Ryan Kearns

Core Team

  • Joe Edelman
  • Oliver Klingefjord
  • Ryan Lowe

Advisors

  • Aviv Ovayada
  • Brian Christian
  • Liv Boeree
  • Peter Wang
  • Toby Shorin
  • Morgan Sutherland

Contact

Want to Collaborate?

research@meaningalignment.org

General Inquiry

hello@meaningalignment.org

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