# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The AI Alignment Problem: Ethics and artificial intelligence
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 18 Oct, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Sun, 18 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Getting AI systems to exhibit human values and perform duties according to societal norms is a challenge often referred to as the alignment problem. How do we solve this problem –especially when AI is often described as a “black box” where we see the input and the output but don’t quite understand how or what happens in between? Even if we could reliably program human values into AI systems, who decides what those values are? What political, religious and cultural views would be the basis of right and wrong? In this talk, based on his bestselling book by the same name, Brian Christian digs deep into the issues with AI alignment and assesses how we can solve them before it’s too late.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/victoria/the-ai-alignment-problem-ethics-and-artificial-intelligence/80002301769734
- **Event Categories**: artificial-intelligence, contests
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 8

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Victoria
- **state**: BC
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: University Farquhar Auditorium
- **lat**: 48.4652164
- **long**: -123.311728
- **full address**: University Farquhar Auditorium, Ring Rd B115, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: The AI Alignment Problem: Ethics and artificial intelligence
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn2.allevents.in/thumbs/thumb6ab41f41ea160.jpg

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The AI Alignment Problem: Ethics and artificial intelligence being held?
  - **A:** The AI Alignment Problem: Ethics and artificial intelligence takes place on Sun, 18 Oct, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sun, 18 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm at University Farquhar Auditorium, Ring Rd B115, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The AI Alignment Problem: Ethics and artificial intelligence?
  - **A:** The AI Alignment Problem: Ethics and artificial intelligence is organized by UVic Science.

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