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MCML Junior Member Sarah Ball Receives Outstanding Position Paper Award at ICML 2026
Their Work Examines the Dual-Use Potential of AI Alignment Methods
MCML Junior Member Sarah Ball and her co-author Phil Hackemann received the Outstanding Position Paper Award at ICML 2026 this week in Seoul.
Their award-winning position paper Position: The Alignment Community Is Unintentionally Building a Censor’s Toolkit raises awareness of the dual-use potential of AI alignment methods and highlights the importance of considering how AI research can be misused.
Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!
Position: The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor’s Toolkit.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. Spotlight Presentation. Outstanding Position Paper Award. URL GitHub
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