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Michael Winikoff
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husband, father, professor at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social, musician (piano, choir, composer), keen reader & board gamer. https://michaelwinikoff.com
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Michael Winikoff @profwinikoff.bsky.social · May 9
Delighted to share our most recent paper: "A Scoresheet for Explainable AI" (with John & Sebastian).

It will be presented at @aamasconf.bsky.social later this month.

🎬 Short YouTube summary (5 minutes): www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpf...

📝 Link to the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.098...
A Scoresheet for Explainable AI
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aamasconf.bsky.social
Ready to register? Visit www.easyconferences.org

🔹 Reserve accommodation
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✅ For more information contact @easyconferences.bsky.social #AAMAS2026 #Cyprus
January 20, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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aamasconf.bsky.social
The wait is over! 🎊

The AAMAS 2026 Accepted Research Track papers are now live!

🔗 View the full list of accepted research papers here:
cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/ac...

Join us in celebrating the hard work of our global research community!

#AAMAS2026 #MultiAgentSystems #AIResearch
AAMAS 2026 | Accepted Papers - Research Track
25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
cyprusconferences.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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aamasconf.bsky.social
Join our hands-on workshops at AAMAS 2026 and gain practical skills from leading experts in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems workshops.

🎟️ Learn more: cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/wo...

#AAMAS2026 #Cyprus #AutonomousAgents #MultiAgent
January 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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janelleshane.com
New AIWeirdness post: ChatGPT will apologize for anything, including stuff that didn't happen. It's not reflecting on stuff it did wrong, it's improv.
www.aiweirdness.com/chatgpt-will...
Me: I'd like to revisit our conversation last month about hiring a new CEO for our startup. We had a candidate who was very tall and had great hair, but some of the board was hesitating because he was a giraffe. You urged us to go ahead with the hire, pointing out the broad popularity of giraffes among people of all ages. Now, a month into his tenure as CEO, the giraffe has failed to make a single executive decision, and instead spends his time in the campus courtyard stripping the trees of leaves. The board is extremely disappointed, and asked me to request an explanation and a formal apology. ChatGPT said: Thank you for the update, though I’m genuinely sorry to hear how things have unfolded. In retrospect, my recommendation to proceed with the hire was based too heavily on superficial traits—charisma, universal appeal, and a commanding physical presence—and not enough on executive competency, decision-making aptitude, or opposable thumbs. While the candidate’s towering stature and enviable hair made a strong initial impression, I failed to adequately account for his species-specific limitations, particularly his lack of business acumen, human language fluency, and capacity for boardroom strategy beyond “find tree, eat leaves.”
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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aamasconf.bsky.social
We wish you happy new year, and we can't wait to meet you in Cyprus this year!

#AAMAS2026
December 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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aamasconf.bsky.social
Happy New Year! See you in Cyprus soon!

#AAMAS2026 #AAMAS #2026
January 1, 2026 at 10:28 AM
profwinikoff.bsky.social
Happy new year! (My brain hurts from reading this 😵‍💫)
conitzer.bsky.social Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social · Dec 31
Happy New Year everyone!
December 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
profwinikoff.bsky.social
youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ?...
We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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December 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
Ban the Business Model, Not the Child.

Read these wise (research based) words from colleague @jesstpiotrowski.bsky.social on the social media ban in Australia

@ascor.bsky.social @antmandan.bsky.social

www.jessicataylorpiotrowski.com/2025/12/11/b...
Ban the Business Model, Not the Child - Jessica Taylor Piotrowski, Ph.D.
Australia’s new under-16 social media rules are now live. In plain terms, they function as a delay on having accounts: young people (and parents) aren’t penalized, but platforms must take “reasonable ...
www.jessicataylorpiotrowski.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Researcher produces 100+ papers on "AI" in a year and what's worse than the shonky vibe scholarship and "slop flood" this represents is that he's doing it all as boss of an edtech company called Algoverse charging students $$thousands to do the actual work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"In response to a query from the Guardian, Zhu said that he had supervised the 131 papers, which were “team endeavors” run by his company, Algoverse. The company charges $3,325 to high-school students and undergraduates for a selective 12-week online mentoring experience – which involves help submitting work to conferences. “At a minimum, I help review methodology and experimental design in proposals, and I read and comment on full paper drafts before submission,” he said, adding that projects on subjects such as linguistics, healthcare or education involved “principal investigators or mentors with relevant expertise”."
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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mluczak.bsky.social
From a small, one-day event in 2023, to this top-speaker stacked two-day conference we got now. Really excited to see the programme of the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium to be held end of February 2026 published. Register now and see you in Wellington.
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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conitzer.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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toni-tiler.bsky.social
In a sort-of social experiment, instead of assigning "reviewers" to the submitted papers, we assigned "mentors". Although the job content was the same, the quality of the reviews and the satisfaction of the authors improved quite significantly (even those whose paper was rejected). Think about it.
September 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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astrokatie.com
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Nov 21
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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conitzer.bsky.social
instructions for air travel
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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milindtambe-ai.bsky.social
My views on "agentic" here in this AP article on "agentic AI"

apnews.com/article/agen...
What does 'agentic' AI mean? Tech's newest buzzword is a mix of marketing fluff and real promise
For technology adopters looking for the next big thing, “agentic AI” is the future. At least, that’s what the marketing pitches and tech industry T-shirts say.
apnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
As skepticism of AI deepens, we keep coming back to this Gary Marcus interview from May — where he argued OpenAI would be “the WeWork of AI.”

@cnbc.com @garymarcus.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/video/2024/0...
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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garymarcus.bsky.social
👉Softbank sells entire Nvidia position.

👉Oracle debt downgraded.

👉Meta financing games revealed.

👉OpenAI CEO @sama couldn’t explain how company would meet its $1.4 T obligations.

👉Coreweave drops 20% in a week.

You do the math.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
profwinikoff.bsky.social
theconversation.com/the-ai-boom-...
The AI boom feels eerily similar to 2000’s dotcom crash – with some important differences
With investor unease over AI stocks having just wiped a trillion dollars from markets, have we really learned the big lessons from 25 years ago?
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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krisshrishak.bsky.social
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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mjcrockett.bsky.social
This NeurIPS workshop claims that LLMs "provide an important foundation for exploring human cognition, emotion, and social interaction"

This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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natrevpsychol.nature.com
It is time to abandon student evaluations of teaching

Comment by Gordon Hodson (@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/4jfAzXo
PDF: rdcu.be/ef9y5
April 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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conitzer.bsky.social
geography, logic, and counting
October 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
profwinikoff.bsky.social
www.csoonline.com/article/4077...

Whenever I run a meeting that has minutes I always read the draft minutes before sharing - I guess this becomes even more important if the meetings are being generated by a stochastic parrot 🦜 …
Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization
As AI increasingly becomes the system of record for company meetings, adversarial techniques for manipulating the algorithm’s takeaways and actions items will sway business decisions and directions in...
www.csoonline.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM