The
Multiverse
School

One-Day Intensive

AI Alignment

09.25.26 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT 6 hours in one focused day

Alignment as measurement, not philosophy, build the benchmark, steer the model, prove it moved.

with Liz Howard

Overview

Alignment is not a philosophy seminar here. It is measurement. You will build a benchmark that can actually fail, write a rubric a model can apply and then check it against independent graders, push a model toward and away from a set of values by prompt and by fine-tune, and prove the change was real rather than a story you told yourself afterwards. The discussion threads, reward misspecification, scalable oversight, hallucination and sleeper agents, and whose values we are aligning to in the first place, run alongside the work rather than instead of it.

What You'll Master

  • Benchmarks that can actually fail
  • Rubrics a model can apply
  • Inter-grader agreement, measured before and after
  • Moderation models for scoring harmful output
  • Values steering by prompt and by fine-tune
  • Held-out sets that prove a fine-tune actually moved
  • Schema-constrained output and parameterised prompts

Where This Class Leads

What you leave able to do

  • design an interaction protocol for responsible use
  • arbitrate between the measure a system optimises and the goal
  • arbitrate which internal feature drives a models behaviour
  • govern a swarm by information hierarchy
  • select among operating boundaries for inputs a system was not built for
  • synthesise an accountability regime for an unattended agent
  • originate oversight that holds when the system outpaces the reviewer

How you show it. The scheme, a run where output exceeded what a reviewer could read, and an error the scheme surfaced anyway.

Join Us

One-Day Intensive

Suggested $300 pay what you can
  • Your seat in the class
  • Lifetime access to materials
  • Sponsors 1 scholarship seat for someone else

The minimum is $150, it keeps out spam. Need to pay less? Apply for a scholarship, no one is turned away for lack of funds.

Pay What You Can

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Instructor

Liz Howard

Liz Howard

Future Infinitive☸️ (Liz Howard) Founder & Professor, The Multiverse School Computer Science · AI · Cybersecurity Formerly faculty, Cal State Monterey Bay Co-founder, Hipcamp Previously built Hackbright Academy, Girl Develop It, Galvanize, Enki

Want to schedule this class for your team?

Contact us: liz@themultiverse.school