NLP Colloquium with Dr. Thilo Hagendorff: From Machine Psychology to AI Safety

As part of the NLP Colloquium series hosted by Lamarr NLP Area Chair and Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Thilo Hagendorff  from the University of Stuttgart for a guest talk titled “From Machine Psychology to AI Safety“. The talk will take place on August 12, 2026, from 11:00 to 12:00 p.m. (CET).

About the Talk

LLMs and LLM-based agents are currently at the forefront of integrating AI systems with human communication and everyday life. For this reason, it is of great importance to thoroughly assess and scrutinize their capabilities. This talk will provide an overview of how Thilo Hagendorff moved from “machine psychology” – where LLMs are treated as participants in psychology experiments – to AI safety. He will focus on research projects covering phenomena that are core problems of AI safety, including deception, emergent misalignment, behavioral self-awareness, evaluation awareness, jailbreaking, and more.

About the Speaker

Thilo Hagendorff is a Research Group Leader at the University of Stuttgart. Previously, he worked at the Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning” at the University of Tuebingen. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, UC San Diego, and the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) in Alicante.

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