Summary
VALE 2026 is being held on 15 August at IJCAI-ECAI and accepted 16 contributions from a record number of submissions. Its topics include value learning, conflict resolution, value-driven explainability, participatory design and legal questions.
Why it matters
As AI systems make more consequential choices, technical performance alone is not enough to determine acceptable behaviour. Value representation and conflict resolution are becoming concrete engineering problems.
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