Mohamed Debbagh
PhD Candidate in Bioresource Engineering
BLUE Fellowship
2026
AI Alignment Fellow
BLUE Fellowship
Fall
2026

Background

Ethical & Distributive AI Alignment Applied to Agricultural Autonomy

Investigating how AI-driven controlled environment agriculture systems can be aligned with priorities of localized food accessibility and equity, rather than luxury optimization.

While technical AI alignment focuses on ensuring that AI’s goals match human intent, this project aims to reframe alignment through AI’s societal deployment with human values and collective wellbeing. The goal of this project is to explore value alignment at the societal and policy level, specifically, ethical alignment, distributional alignment, and mission alignment.

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