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OpenAI x DFT: The First Moral Graph
Beyond Constitutional AI; Our first trial with 500 Americans; How democratic processes can generate an LLM we can trust.
Oct 24, 2023 • Joe Edelman and Oliver Klingefjord
Market Intermediaries: A post-AGI Vision for the Economy
An outline of an economic mechanism for human flourishing after AGI. Also, a brief look at an experiment the Meaning Alignment Institute will run later…
Jun 21, 2025 • Oliver Klingefjord and Joe Edelman
Introducing Democratic Fine-Tuning
An alternative to Constitutional AI or simple RLHF-based approaches for fine-tuning LLMs based on moral information from diverse populations.
Aug 29, 2023 • Joe Edelman and Oliver Klingefjord
Introducing Full-Stack Alignment
We're announcing an ambitious research program to co-align AI systems and the institutions that embed them with what people actually value.
Jul 31, 2025 • Oliver Klingefjord, Joe Edelman, and Ryan Lowe
Model Integrity and Character
Thoughts on model integrity and Claude's new constitution.
Feb 8 • Oliver Klingefjord
Model Integrity
You may want compliance from an assistant, but not from a co-founder. You want a co-founder with integrity. We propose ‘model integrity’ as an…
Dec 5, 2024 • Joe Edelman and Oliver Klingefjord
What are human values, and how do we align to them?
We are excited to release our new paper on values alignment! Co-authored with Ryan Lowe, and funded by OpenAI.
Mar 29, 2024 • Joe Edelman, Oliver Klingefjord, and Ryan Lowe
Looking for testers for a Social App
We are looking for testers for a social app we will use to perform research on AI-based market intermediaries. It will also help you get closer to your…
Aug 14, 2025 • Oliver Klingefjord and Joe Edelman
Baumol's Sawdust
On the limits of competition for deep wants.
May 15 • Oliver Klingefjord
Designing Institutions for a World with Powerful AI
Highlights from our Paris workshop, February 2026
Apr 6 • Oliver Klingefjord, Joe Edelman, and Ryan Lowe
Coasean Compression
On incomplete contracting at scale.
May 5 • Oliver Klingefjord
We are now "The Institute for Meaning Alignment"
Hello everyone!
Aug 29, 2023 • Joe Edelman
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