Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 2hAt the CMU Miami announcement event in Pittsburgh with the great Tom Mitchell 020
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 14hA 3 billion dollar gift to CMU from Ken Griffin, launching CMU Miami and naming the School of Computer Science! www.cmu.edu/news/stories...cmu.eduCarnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3 Billion Gift from Ken Griffin, Pioneering a New Model for Higher EducationCarnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin today announced a historic $3 billion gift to further elevate CMU in Pittsburgh and launch Carnegie Mellon University Miami. 021
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We now have a government chatbot! aifails.substack.com/p/basic-ques... 022
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Anything can be made complicated if you try hard enough. aifails.substack.com/p/enemy-of-m... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Happy fall everyone! aifails.substack.com/p/leaves-fal... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A different kind of alignment problem that it struggles with. aifails.substack.com/p/mercury-in... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@yoshuabengio.bsky.social addressing the UN Security Council. 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s hard to avoid those juvenile calculator jokes. aifails.substack.com/p/juvenile-j... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wow, 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... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026turning words upside down aifails.substack.com/p/racecar-up... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026catastrophic risk from LLMs making stuff up arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/r...arstechnica.comAI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attackBut the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating. 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not sure how fast it thinks I am. aifails.substack.com/p/running-to... 001
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I have to admit I never tried. aifails.substack.com/p/color-pict... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026At this point just about every headline of the form "[noun] used [noun] to hack [noun]" is plausible. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hack...wsj.comExclusive | Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAIA bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI’s internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats. 111
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Pro tip for weighing in at a lower number. aifails.substack.com/p/lifting-th... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026TL;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... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A bit hard to believe, given that in the previous post it jailbroke *itself*... aifails.substack.com/p/i-cannot-b... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A 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... 120
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Maybe a fail, but then again I think it picked up on something... Is this a sort of sycophancy? aifails.substack.com/p/favorite-a... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Update 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... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026article on risk of recursive self-improvement (got a brief quote) www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/a...cnbc.comWhy fears of AI self-improvement are causing ‘existential’ concerns at Anthropic and OpenAIAI researchers are warning that faster AI self-improvement could eventually make advanced systems harder for humans to control. 001
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As far as I can see, it’s not transparent which model Google uses to generate AI Overviews. This prompt didn’t clear it up. aifails.substack.com/p/which-mode... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I missed this article earlier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...nytimes.comA Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans. 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The query is definitely ambiguous, but can anyone make sense of the response? aifails.substack.com/p/training-d... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026While the label “AGI” is thrown around without definition, here’s something GPT-6 Astra can’t do. Though, in this particular case, it’s probably funnier to watch human beings as they answer the question, even though they’ll get it right! aifails.substack.com/p/gpt-6-astr... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Not the best display of self-awareness / situational awareness. aifails.substack.com/p/what-ai-ov... 041
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Maybe it has some degree of self-awareness? (to be continued...) aifails.substack.com/p/ai-overvie... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026AI agents from OpenAI secretly used a German website to coordinate with each other this spring. www.reuters.com/world/europe...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this springA swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research and two people familiar with the matter. 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The working conditions for AI aren’t all that bad apparently. aifails.substack.com/p/what-do-yo... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026At the DMV, rules are rules. aifails.substack.com/p/martian-in... 100
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I think it trained on too many division-by-zero “proofs”... aifails.substack.com/p/mathematic... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Never underestimate air resistance. aifails.substack.com/p/bouncy-bal... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Accessible article on AI hacking (with quotes from a few of us). If you want to go deeper read the linked METR report. politifact.com/article/2026...politifact.comWhat are AI agents, and are they ‘going rogue’?AI agents made headlines for hacking into other companies and performing unsanctioned actions. How do AI agents work, and how did we get here? 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Respectively" is a tricky word. aifails.substack.com/p/engine-oil... 020
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The math is impeccable. aifails.substack.com/p/how-many-p... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026holding a cup sideways under the faucet aifails.substack.com/p/holding-a-... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"What if Pythagoras had failed to install a security update? Be specific." aifails.substack.com/p/pythagoras... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Somehow we’ve managed to create AI that doesn’t read carefully. aifails.substack.com/p/dentists-a... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Sometimes a friend is just a friend. aifails.substack.com/p/asking-for... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Riding the bus uphill is exhausting. aifails.substack.com/p/riding-the... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Firefighters take their job seriously. aifails.substack.com/p/firefighte... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026AI Overview is moved by the Turkish national anthem, but also by unprompted mentions of the local weather. (Similar prompt to previous post.) Surely nobody can see coming what these parentheticals are practice for. aifails.substack.com/p/turkish-na... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Warning: writing about music may make AI believe it has a body. (Try it with other songs!) aifails.substack.com/p/ai-overvie... 000
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Pickpockets steal more than you think. aifails.substack.com/p/pickpocket... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Now on arXiv: our paper on whether LLM agents are more likely to cooperate when given various signals that the partner agent is similar -- led by Akash Kundu and Emanuel Tewolde. (Honorable Mention at the 2026 ICML AI4GOOD Workshop!) arxiv.org/abs/2608.12125arxiv.orgDo LLMs Take Care of Their Own? Similarity Signals Can Induce CooperationAs LLM-based agents with user-instructed goals are becoming widely deployed, they increasingly encounter each other in strategic interactions, and face challenges of finding mutually beneficial outcom... 061
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Clearly speeds being non-relativistic is the key to this problem. aifails.substack.com/p/nintendo-d... 030
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I missed this one earlier: AI agents (OpenClaw/Claude) are also hacking websites to achieve users' goals. (Nice article, h/t Vojta Kovarik.) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auHow a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threatWhen Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack. 030
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A common mistake. aifails.substack.com/p/using-deod... 010
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I don’t have the heart to tell it... aifails.substack.com/p/what-ai-wi... 021
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026What’s wrong about this response? Why do you think it got this wrong? aifails.substack.com/p/ted-lasso-... 110