Pluralistic Alignment
@ NeurIPS 2024 Workshop
December 15, 2024 in Vancouver, Canada
Exploring Pluralistic Perspectives in AI
Welcome to the Pluralistic Alignment Workshop! Aligning AI with human preferences and values is increasingly important. Yet, today’s AI alignment methods have been shown to be insufficient for capturing the vast space of complex – and often conflicting – real-world values. Our workshop will discuss how to integrate diverse perspectives, values, and expertise into pluralistic AI alignment. We aim to explore new methods for multi-objective alignment by drawing inspiration from governance and consensus-building practices to address conflicting values in pluralistic AI alignment. Discussion will include technical approaches for dataset collection, algorithms development, and the design of human-AI interaction workflows that reflect pluralistic values among diverse populations. By gathering experts from various fields, this workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and push the boundaries of the understanding, development and practice of pluralistic AI alignment.
Stay tuned by following us on Twitter @pluralistic_ai.
Our workshop aims to bring together researchers with diverse scientific backgrounds, including (but not limited to) machine learning, human-computer interaction, philosophy, and policy studies. More broadly, our workshop lies at the intersection of computer and social sciences. We welcome all interested researchers to discuss the aspects of pluralistic AI, from its definition to the technical pipeline to broad deployment and social acceptance.
We invite submissions that discuss the technical, philosophical, and societal aspects of pluralistic AI. We provide a non-exhaustive list of topics we hope to cover below. We also broadly welcome any submissions which are broadly relevant to pluralistic alignment.
Submission Instructions
We invite authors to submit anonymized papers up to 4 pages, excluding references and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format and made through OpenReview submission portal. Submissions must follow the NeurIPS 2024 template. Checklists are not required for submissions. Reviews will be double-blind, with at least three reviewers assigned to each paper to ensure a thorough evaluation process.
We welcome various types of papers including works in progress, position papers, policy papers, academic papers. All accepted papers will be available on the workshop website, but are to be considered non-archival.
Travel Support
There will be a limited amount of travel grants to cover expenses. Financial support will be made available for lodging, and registration, subject to our available funding. Travel expenses are handled via reimbursement. We extend our thanks to OpenAI for their generous sponsorship of our workshop.
Please fill out the travel support application form by Oct 18, 2025 AOE.
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).
July 15, 2024 | Call for Workshop Papers |
Paper Submission Deadline | |
Oct 9, 2024 | Notification of Acceptance |
---|---|
Oct 18, 2024 | Travel Support Application Deadline |
Oct 30, 2024 | Camera-Ready Due |
Dec 10, 2024 | Release of Proceedings |
Dec 15, 2024 | Workshop Date |
Time | Program |
---|---|
9:00-9:10 | Opening remarks |
9:10-9:55 | Keynote Talk: Melanie Mitchell |
9:55-10:40 | Keynote Talk: Michael Bernstein |
10:40-11:40 | Poster Session & Coffee Break |
11:40-12:25 | Keynote Talk: Yejin Choi |
12:25-13:30 | Lunch Break |
13:30-14:15 | Keynote Talk: Seth Lazar |
14:15-15:00 | Keynote Talk: Monojit Choudhury |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30-16:50 | 5 Contributed Talks (10 mins talk + 5 mins Q&A) |
16:50-17:50 | Panel Discussion |
17:50-18:00 | Closing Remarks |
To appear.
Please email pluralistic-alignment-neurips2024@googlegroups.com if you have any questions.