Seminar Series - Assistant Professor, Meicen Sun

Event details Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Time: 5:00 PM to 5:00 PM Location: Coble Hall Type: Seminar/Symposium About this event General Events Calendar home Calendar search Share on Facebook Tweet Email add to calendar contact add an event Event subscriptions General Events Seminar Series - Assistant Professor, Meicen Sun Seminar Series - Assistant Professor, Meicen Sun Sep 8, 2026 5:00 pm Coble Hall Seminar/Symposium Sponsor The Program in Arms Control and Domestic and International Security Contact ACDIS E-Mail acdis@illinois.edu Views 132 Originating Calendar ACDIS: Arms Control & Domestic and International Security Large Language Models as Information Controllers: Challenges and Ways Forward Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming a major source of information. Yet, the task of aligning LLMs with human values remains with a small group of model providers. This talk reviews welfare loss due to LLM misalignment, analyzes underlying tradeoffs, and previews potential solutions. Bio: Meicen Sun is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines the political economy of information, the geopolitics of data, and information policy. Her writings have appeared in academic and policy outlets, including International Organization, Foreign Policy Analysis, Harvard Business Review, The Hill , World Economic Forum, and the Asian Development Bank Institute. She had previously conducted research at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and at the UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa. Bilingual in English and Chinese, she has also written stories, plays, and music and staged many of her works -- in both languages -- in China, Singapore and the U.S. Sun served as a Fellow on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on China and is an affiliated faculty with the MIT FutureTech. She holds an AB with honors from Princeton University, an AM with a Certificate in Law from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Official event details: https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7/33554650