Human Value Alignment in AI

Ilias O. Pappas; Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou · 2025 · In Handbook of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Springer) background low priority coded

Main argument

Thesis (reference entry): defines human value alignment in AI, motivates its importance for human-centered AI, surveys approaches (value-sensitive design, participatory methods, technical alignment) and organizational/governance dimensions from an information-systems perspective.

Why it matters here

Information-systems handbook treatment of value alignment - definitional overview, importance, approaches - from the HCAI tradition. Reference-work register; useful only as evidence of the concept's diffusion into IS/HCI curricula.

Reading notes

Compact treatment (Agder; Springer reference-work entry, 33pp). TOC-level read.

Pappas, I. O., & Vassilakopoulou, P. (2025). Human Value Alignment in AI. In Handbook of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Springer.

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#1 · pp. 1 · definition

“[Handbook entry: definition and importance of human value alignment in AI; survey of approaches from the human-centered AI / information-systems tradition, incl. value-sensitive design and participatory methods.]”

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comparison · unit #1

Coverage citation: value alignment now has reference-work codification in the IS/HCI literature (with value-sensitive design as its native method) - useful in the lit review's field-mapping paragraph alongside McKinlay (CS), Triantafyllopoulos (advisory), and the Phil Studies cluster (philosophy) to show the concept's cross-disciplinary institutionalization.