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Systems of Value

Exploring values, alignment, artificial intelligence, and the future of our institutions.

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System Values Analysis Tool

Surfacing the gap between a system's stated values and its behaviours.

Moral Alignment: Teaching Systems to Feel

Reclaiming democracy as a continuous act of moral calibration.

Narrative Values Extractor

A simple tool demonstrator for seeing the moral story inside the news.

Articulating Our Values For Systems

Our systems don’t have a moral sense. But LLMs know language very well, and might be able to translate our values for them.

An Alignment Chart for Those-Who-Have-Seen-the-Insanity-of-"The-System"-and-Responded-as-Best-They-Can

This one is for fun, it shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

Authoring Our Values

If we don't author our collective values, systems will do it silently. AI might help us reclaim our role.

Terms of Service Evaluator

Well done, you got through those long essays, time for a break.

When AI Becomes the System

Bureaucracy was built with human limits in mind. Advances in AI mean those limits could disappear.

How Values Get Lost in Translation

A framework for how human values move (and get lost) through law, organisations, and interfaces.

Organisations as Emergent, Non-Conscious Intelligences

Our institutions think without feeling. That’s why our values need to be designed in.

Aligning Our Systems to Human Values

We demand values alignment from artificial intelligences. Why not our other systems?

Welcome to Systems of Value

Exploring values, AI, and the alignment of the systems that shape our lives.