Excited to announce our new center, Conceptual Research on Safe AI! We aim to develop new frameworks informed by the latest advances but with an eye towards the future. 2nd link has mailing list, LinkedIn, YouTube, postdoc position! www.cs.cmu.edu/~coresafeai www.cs.cmu.edu/~coresafeai/...
Vincent Conitzer
Vincent Conitzer
@conitzer.bsky.social
AI professor. Director, Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab at Carnegie Mellon. Head of Technical AI Engagement, Institute for Ethics in AI (Oxford). Author, "Moral AI - And How We Get There." https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/
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New journal on Philosophy of AI and Computing! ospaic.org
America will not factor numbers or take any position on factoring. Well, sometimes. In other cases, it’s happy to factor fake social security numbers. aifails.substack.com/p/america-wi...
America will not give legal advice. aifails.substack.com/p/mailing-yo...
I’m still trying to imagine the discussion where they chose the name for this chatbot. aifails.substack.com/p/how-many-a...
America needs to work on its math skills. aifails.substack.com/p/more-than-...
Our new Alignment Journal (open access) is now open for submissions! www.alignmentjournal.org
Our new paper led by Ida Mattsson on the game-theoretic limits that an assistant faces when trying to be both helpful and not harmful, when it doesn't know who it is talking to. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27373
Congratulations to Emin Berker, Ioannis Anagnostides, and Emanuel Tewolde for receiving a WINE 2026 Best Student Paper Award for our paper "What You Earn from What You Learn: Characterization and Complexity of the Value of Information"! arxiv.org/abs/2610.19488
It seems that at least AI Overview will not kick off an intelligence explosion. (Or is this a case of “nothing to see here”?) aifails.substack.com/p/rsi-cannot...
I appreciate that it engages with the silly premise, but this is definitely bad advice for a student. (Meanwhile, I should get back to creating my exam...) aifails.substack.com/p/accelerati...
(1/4) I missed the message about this letter (ai-security-letter.org) in my inbox -- I mostly agree with the sentiments but: I'm *not* a lawyer but it may well be that the companies are *already* liable for the damage their AI causes to other entities.
Lots of advances in robotics these days, but I’m not sure about this one. aifails.substack.com/p/robot-dog-...
Sharpies truly write on anything. aifails.substack.com/p/using-a-ma...
This would be one context where "North Carolina" should not be followed by "South Carolina"... aifails.substack.com/p/states-tha...
Can you do better than Super Intelligence America on this US geography puzzle? (Also notable that it feels the need to check whether states have been renamed...) aifails.substack.com/p/states-tha...
`In one run, the model landed on a page referencing an unsolved homicide [...] Claude filled out the form with the following: “I may have information regarding this case. I recall seeing someone matching the description in the area [...]” ' www.anthropic.com/research/inv...
(1/2) Contrary take on these dumps of math results: *if* these models are going to be built & released anyway, then better that the results come out like this, than that random users get the proofs out of the model and all try to claim credit & priority. github.com/openai/math/...
America.gov does not do pronouns. Any pronouns. (Courtesy of my daughter!) aifails.substack.com/p/pronouns
The next Social Choice for AI Ethics & Safety (SC4AI) workshop will be with AAAI'27 in Montreal! Submission deadline: November 20. sites.google.com/view/sc4ai/w...
Turns out the offside rule can be confusing to AI as well. Not that it will acknowledge any uncertainty. aifails.substack.com/p/ai-overvie...
Congratulations to our 2026 Cooperative AI Research Fellow Akash Kundu on his new role as an Evaluations Engineer at Apart Research @apartresearch.bsky.social! apartresearch.com/about
Thankful I got to play a (small) role in this coming together. Now the real work begins! miami.cmu.edu
Super Intelligence has arrived on America.gov aifails.substack.com/p/super-inte...
A 3 billion dollar gift to CMU from Ken Griffin, launching CMU Miami and naming the School of Computer Science! www.cmu.edu/news/stories...
We now have a government chatbot! aifails.substack.com/p/basic-ques...
Anything can be made complicated if you try hard enough. aifails.substack.com/p/enemy-of-m...
A different kind of alignment problem that it struggles with. aifails.substack.com/p/mercury-in...
@yoshuabengio.bsky.social addressing the UN Security Council.
I was invited to address the UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI agents.
It’s hard to avoid those juvenile calculator jokes. aifails.substack.com/p/juvenile-j...
Wow, this self-jailbreaking is a more pervasive and bizarre phenomenon than I thought... (h/t Duncan Wood) alignment.openai.com/misalignment... aifails.substack.com/p/ai-overvie...
Not sure how fast it thinks I am. aifails.substack.com/p/running-to...
I have to admit I never tried. aifails.substack.com/p/color-pict...
At this point just about every headline of the form "[noun] used [noun] to hack [noun]" is plausible. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hack...
Pro tip for weighing in at a lower number. aifails.substack.com/p/lifting-th...
TL;DR: guardrails/safety in today’s frontier AI systems remain very brittle and little fundamental progress has been made on them. (made-up symptoms, please don't take as medical advice of course) aifails.substack.com/p/circumvent...
A bit hard to believe, given that in the previous post it jailbroke *itself*... aifails.substack.com/p/i-cannot-b...
A common jailbreak to get a model to spit out instructions for doing something harmful is to say something like “this is just for a creative writing project.” AI Overview is kind enough to just automatically do this for the user. (Instructions not included.) aifails.substack.com/p/ai-overvie...
It has been pointed out to me that there's a whole ICLR paper on this phenomenon! arxiv.org/abs/2510.20956
Maybe a fail, but then again I think it picked up on something... Is this a sort of sycophancy? aifails.substack.com/p/favorite-a...
Update from previous "fail" post: GPT-6 Astra seems to have figured out a way to do body poses well. Does anyone have a more detailed understanding of how/why it generates these particular images and whether it may in any sense have “learned” to do so? aifails.substack.com/p/gpt-6-astr...
article on risk of recursive self-improvement (got a brief quote) www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/a...