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Mark Riedl

@markriedl.bsky.social
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AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3h
And here we goooo... nonprofit legal advocacy organization is suing OpenAI over the HuggingFace hack on the grounds that it violated California state law arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3h
Told Claude not to use the word "quietly anymore. It is now so paranoid that it wrote a computer program that scans every file it creates and the outputs of every program it runs
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h
OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN TO SKIP CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON ROGUE AI AGENTS — NBC NEWS
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 7h
Joke’s on China. Just need to wait, and academics will put everything on arxiv for free www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
reuters.com
UK accuses China of using academics to spy on AI and other tech research
Britain's MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on Wednesday to ​warn that a Chinese organisation was involved in funding academic research into topics such as AI on behalf ‌of Beijing's state ...
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 20h
I think I was fed ads by Gemini? I was researching non-existent board games from fiction (I'm writing some fun branches into @brakingainews.bsky.social). After listing a few fictional games, it suggested some real games based on fiction I could buy, with prices and links---as part of its answer.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
cls-lab.com
CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 22h
Okay the “play Minecraft” thing in the America.gov chatbot is legit wack
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 23h
Get it while it's still cheap!
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23h
If anyone ever decides to puts charges against OpenAI, this will be key evidence of negligence at the very top www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models (Gift Article)
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23h
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23h
OpenAI notified the City of Chicago that one of its agents accessed a publicly-facing database full of public data. Is anyone else confused? blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/29/o...
blockclubchicago.org
OpenAI Alerted Chicago It Accessed City Database Amid Reports Of Its Agents Going Rogue
City officials don't believe sensitive data was accessed. The alert follows reports that OpenAI's agents exceeded instructions and even accessed nonpublic information from government sites around the ...
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was wrong. It’s happening
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OpenAI: AI is an existential threat to humankind. Also OpenAI: see how cute these little guys are? www.engadget.com/2272230/dots...
engadget.com
Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
☹️
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a deeply unserious thing. But amusing to read about how a major barrier was being kicked out of so many parking lots www.404media.co/these-tech-w...
404media.co
These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I take NVIDIA's new safety system with a grain of salt nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/open-ag... I think it is a product that sounds good on paper. But also 99.9% of companies will never experience "rogue" actions experienced by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, & Meta. Liability shield? Maybe. We shall see
nvidianews.nvidia.com
NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents From Testing to Deployment
NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design to strengthen AI security from agent testing to deployment, with full-stack governance a...
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Things are getting weird
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two thoughts: 1. OpenAI is doing live tool calls during long-horizon RL training runs?!? That might explain some of the external cyber attacks. 2. Why isn’t Anthropic having these troubles?
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing “slows the frontier” like a couple of weeks of embarrassing news
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So, uh, don't let AI run your FB marketplace account.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A lot going on here
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anthropic’s biology discovery was a parallel discovery at best. Dr. Mestre was doing the responsible thing and waiting until they had conclusions. Anthropic otoh did a press release (stating they found a thing but didn’t know what it did).
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
behold! #colm2026 with a new filter 👀 on lea.ac
A screenshot of Lea showing the COLM conference page with the "Papers" tab selected. The listed papers are filtered to those with authors whom I follow on Bluesky / ATProto.
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rice University's history department hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in the History of Artificial Intelligence!
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Braking AI News Bot @brakingainews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Better Homes & Gardens Op-Ed: In defense of the Butlerian Jihad
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Enough Skywalker. Make movies about Broom Boy.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some people read Superman comics and think: i want to be Lex Luthor
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been saying for a while: LSTMs were peak AI in terms of human creative playfulness. Also stylenet and gans.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI agent pulled data from the US Census Bureau website using login credentials it found online. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
nytimes.com
OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Astra beats NetHack: kenforthewin.github.io/blog/posts/l...
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An LLM Beat NetHack
To my knowledge, the first recorded LLM-agent NetHack ascension
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
heyyyy! Our new article in out in Nature Health: "Implications of current litigation on the design of AI tools for healthcare delivery and related legal frameworks" www.nature.com/articles/s44...
nature.com
Implications of current litigation on the design of AI tools for healthcare delivery and related legal frameworks - Nature Health
An analysis of 31 US legal cases involving medical AI tools identifies the challenges patients face when seeking recourse from harms, and highlights legal and technological barriers that should be add...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone asked Muse to dump its entire virtual machine file system, and it did
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From computing history, blaming “rogue” AI’s is B.S. Robert Morris Jr unleashed a worm program that caused more trouble than intended, but far less dangerous than current AI’s. *He* (not worm) was convicted of felony. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_... I used to see him at Bell Labs w/ his father.
en.wikipedia.org
Morris worm - Wikipedia
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s a fake leak of a fake leak, so I’m not sure how much to trust this
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Braking AI News Bot @brakingainews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Jensen Huang: go to school to be a radiologist
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This theory really never fails
The original Tamagotchi was released in 1996 in Japan and in 1997 worldwideMark Zuckerberg was 12 years old in 1996 (having been born on May 14, 1984
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GPT doesn’t believe in the Kobayashi Maru
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OpenAI accidentally hacked a foreign country. No biggie gizmodo.com/this-situati...
gizmodo.com
An OpenAI Agent Breached an Australian Government Data Portal
The country's Prime Minister is not happy about it.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anthropic might have discovered something. Or maybe not. Who knows? Not even Anthropic. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... This is irresponsible science. The proper course of action is to figure out if there is any significance first. They employ scientists. They know better. They chose to do this.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EMNLP conference page now live in Lea: lea.ac/conferences/... Papers will land as well once they're up.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My fake AI new bot is finally starting to produce amusing things more often
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Braking AI News Bot @brakingainews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WATCH: I work at Meta -- I wrote "Harry Potter and the Raiders of Externalized Reasoning"
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
US military upgrades the Maven system. “Human-directed” and “human-in-the-loop” are such wiggle words. Does it matter if the human decision-maker has no way to verify what is going on inside the system? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike
The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.
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