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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." https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 12h

AI is evolving too quickly for an annual report to suffice. To help policymakers keep pace, we're introducing the first Key Update to the International AI Safety Report. 🧵⬇️

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 4h

so many soap opera plots ruled out... (to be continued)

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 23h

article on Nash (a CMU alum!) with a mention of our lab and the Nash75 conference at Oxford as well
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Nash's Game-Changing Idea Marks 75 Years

Mathematician and Carnegie Mellon University alumnus John F. Nash, Jr. published the Nash Equilibrium 75 years ago.

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 1d

"could an egg hatch on a train"

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 3d

got a brief quote in this timely article by Miles Klee
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

What You Tell an AI Chatbot Could One Day Be Evidence in a Criminal Trial

User exchanges with ChatGPT and other AI tools are a valuable new form of evidence for law enforcement in criminal investigations and prosecutions.

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 3d

The next iteration of the Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety workshop was accepted to be held at IASEAI'26, Paris, in February!
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SC4AI - SC4AI'26e

Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety 2026 (SC4AI'26) will take place at IASEAI'26 in Paris, France on February 26, 2026 The workshop is organized by Vincent Conitzer, Jobst Heitzig, and Wesley Holli...

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 4d

I like how methodical it is, ruling out every possible way to give it the benefit of the doubt.

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 5d

"what if my identical twin and I stand in front of a mirror together? which of these can I distinguish from each other: myself, my reflection, my twin, and my twin's reflection?"

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 6d

order of episodes

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 8d

tickling statues

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 9d

rules for Where's Waldo

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 10d

Apparently aging really does happen in years.

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 11d

time and clocks

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 12d

"is it possible for any animal to fly from brooklyn to manhattan"

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 14d

trash day

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 15d

adding insult to injury

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 17d

Please hold still while the AI gets the information into your brain most efficiently.

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 18d

Excited our paper "AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour" was accepted to the first NeurIPS position paper track! We argue AI systems may act strategically w.r.t. the possibility they are currently being tested & game theory helps address this.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.14927

AI Testing Should Account for Sophisticated Strategic Behaviour

This position paper argues for two claims regarding AI testing and evaluation. First, to remain informative about deployment behaviour, evaluations need account for the possibility that AI systems und...

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 19d

planes

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 20d

more geography

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 22d

borders

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 23d

I got to give the opening lecture for the 2025 Cooperative AI Summer School and the video is now online! "Foundations and Frontiers of Cooperative AI" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfnb... @coop-ai.bsky.social

Foundations and Frontiers of Cooperative AI by Vincent Conitzer

YouTube video by Cooperative AI Foundation

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 23d

BTW the continuation of this (citing Healthline!):

Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 24d

Don't you hate it when you have your eyes closed just when you take a picture?

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · 25d

"which country is two countries to the north of mexico"

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