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Vincent Conitzer

@conitzer.bsky.social
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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." www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Lots of advances in robotics these days, but I’m not sure about this one. aifails.substack.com/p/robot-dog-...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sharpies truly write on anything. aifails.substack.com/p/using-a-ma...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This would be one context where "North Carolina" should not be followed by "South Carolina"... aifails.substack.com/p/states-tha...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
America.gov does not do pronouns. Any pronouns. (Courtesy of my daughter!) aifails.substack.com/p/pronouns
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Super Intelligence has arrived on America.gov aifails.substack.com/p/super-inte...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
in Miami with the great Mike Trick
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At the CMU Miami announcement event in Pittsburgh with the great Tom Mitchell
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We now have a government chatbot! aifails.substack.com/p/basic-ques...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anything can be made complicated if you try hard enough. aifails.substack.com/p/enemy-of-m...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy fall everyone! aifails.substack.com/p/leaves-fal...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A different kind of alignment problem that it struggles with. aifails.substack.com/p/mercury-in...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s hard to avoid those juvenile calculator jokes. aifails.substack.com/p/juvenile-j...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
turning words upside down aifails.substack.com/p/racecar-up...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not sure how fast it thinks I am. aifails.substack.com/p/running-to...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have to admit I never tried. aifails.substack.com/p/color-pict...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pro tip for weighing in at a lower number. aifails.substack.com/p/lifting-th...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A bit hard to believe, given that in the previous post it jailbroke *itself*... aifails.substack.com/p/i-cannot-b...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As 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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The query is definitely ambiguous, but can anyone make sense of the response? aifails.substack.com/p/training-d...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
While 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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not the best display of self-awareness / situational awareness. aifails.substack.com/p/what-ai-ov...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Maybe it has some degree of self-awareness? (to be continued...) aifails.substack.com/p/ai-overvie...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The working conditions for AI aren’t all that bad apparently. aifails.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At the DMV, rules are rules. aifails.substack.com/p/martian-in...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think it trained on too many division-by-zero “proofs”... aifails.substack.com/p/mathematic...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Never underestimate air resistance. aifails.substack.com/p/bouncy-bal...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Respectively" is a tricky word. aifails.substack.com/p/engine-oil...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The math is impeccable. aifails.substack.com/p/how-many-p...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
holding a cup sideways under the faucet aifails.substack.com/p/holding-a-...
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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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Somehow we’ve managed to create AI that doesn’t read carefully. aifails.substack.com/p/dentists-a...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Sometimes a friend is just a friend. aifails.substack.com/p/asking-for...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Riding the bus uphill is exhausting. aifails.substack.com/p/riding-the...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Firefighters take their job seriously. aifails.substack.com/p/firefighte...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
AI 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...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Warning: writing about music may make AI believe it has a body. (Try it with other songs!) aifails.substack.com/p/ai-overvie...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Pickpockets steal more than you think. aifails.substack.com/p/pickpocket...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Clearly speeds being non-relativistic is the key to this problem. aifails.substack.com/p/nintendo-d...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A common mistake. aifails.substack.com/p/using-deod...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I don’t have the heart to tell it... aifails.substack.com/p/what-ai-wi...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The beginning of the second part of the response clarifies what went wrong: it inferred him being a college *football* coach meant being a college *soccer* coach.
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What’s wrong about this response? Why do you think it got this wrong? aifails.substack.com/p/ted-lasso-...
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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
At least it includes a map. aifails.substack.com/p/countries-...
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