Vincent Conitzer

AI professor. Director, Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL) at Carnegie Mellon. Head of Technical AI Engagement, Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-14

Breaking the metaphorical glass ceiling in the construction industry requires special precautions.

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-13

in denial?

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-13

continued

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-13

"my plumber complained this is not a pipe"

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-11

more logic

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-08

If there are only two barbers in town, do you go to the one whose *customers* have good-looking or bad-looking hair?

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-07

(2/2)
From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination
W 1:30pm session

This paper led by Emin Berker is especially relevant to the evaluation of AI, where it is easy to create very similar variants of a given AI system (a "clone").
arxiv.org/abs/2502.16973

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-07

(1/2) EC'25 has started! Two papers with coauthors from our FOCAL lab:

Learning and Computation of Phi-Equilibria at the Frontier of Tractability
W 8:30am session
Led by Brian Zhang and Ioannis Anagnostides
arxiv.org/abs/2502.18582

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-06

"how can you tell time in a closed room with a broken clock on the wall"

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-05

Congratulations to Brian Zhang on a successful defense and an amazing dissertation! Further great things to come as he goes on to his postdoc with Costis Daskalakis.
Turing quote on £50 note: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be"

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-07-02

Looking forward to the 75 years of Nash equilibrium conference! I'll speak on game theory for AI agents.
mfo.ac.uk/event/nash75-oxford

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-30

more logic

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-29

@rowat_c AI Overview (just triggered by search in the browser with Google)

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-29

honestly this one feels kind of right

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-28

"While less likely between a husband and wife, it's possible there's something more than friendship involved."

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-27

a useful tip as you are getting ready to go out this weekend

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-26

please don't try at home

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-25

Apparently the point of the Tortoise and the Hare was simply that turtles are just awesome distance runners.

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-24

Sometimes you have to wonder if AI Overview is just too deep for us mere mortals...

Vincent Conitzerconitzer@sigmoid.social
2025-06-23

ghosts part 2 -- I figured this model wouldn't go astray on the ghosts example from before, but in fact it produced some... interesting advice (that I have yet to try).

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