04.07.2025 - ELLIS Unit Stuttgart Summer Symposium

On July 04, 2025 the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart held it’s annual Summer Symposium. With about 70 attendees,the Event attracted significant interest and was well-received. In Addition to ELLIS PhD students and members, it brought togehter a diverse cohort of students representing all 4 core Research Areas of the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart: Interactive Intelligent Systems, Natural and Programming Language Processing, Learning Theory, and Robot Learning.

Prof. Dr. Thilo Hagenberg kicked off the Event with his Keynote on “Language Model Evaluation From a Psychological Perspective”. As an expert in AI safety, AI ethics, machine behavior in generative models, as well as the intersection of machine learning and psychology, he outlined how psychology can inform behavioral Tests for LLMS, and how such tests can discover emergent abilities in LLMS. As a Deep dive, his Keynote focused on the phenomenon of deception in LLMs - an ability that carries significant implications for alignment and safety.

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