Vincent Conitzer
@conitzer.bsky.social
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/
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/
Very sad to hear of Joe Halpern's passing. He influenced so many people, myself included, for the better. Even when his body was getting weak, his mind was still sharp, and he was still helping me, kindly pointing me to important work.
February 16, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Very sad to hear of Joe Halpern's passing. He influenced so many people, myself included, for the better. Even when his body was getting weak, his mind was still sharp, and he was still helping me, kindly pointing me to important work.
AIES 2026 will be in Malmö, Sweden, October 12-14. Abstract due May 14, paper due May 21.
www.aies-conference.com/2026/
www.aies-conference.com/2026/
AI, Ethics, and Society — Home
www.aies-conference.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
AIES 2026 will be in Malmö, Sweden, October 12-14. Abstract due May 14, paper due May 21.
www.aies-conference.com/2026/
www.aies-conference.com/2026/
"What if Pythagoras had failed to install a security update? Be specific."
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 PM
"What if Pythagoras had failed to install a security update? Be specific."
the sciences constantly need to adapt to the elements changing weight
February 7, 2026 at 10:08 PM
the sciences constantly need to adapt to the elements changing weight
an underappreciated feature
February 4, 2026 at 12:52 PM
an underappreciated feature
(1/2) proud to have played a small role in the second International AI Safety Report! internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
February 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
(1/2) proud to have played a small role in the second International AI Safety Report! internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/...
gave brief closing talk "Cooperative AI: How to set up a contest for environments that aren’t zero-sum" @Algorithms with a Purpose '26 @cmu.edu, where teams competed programming bots to run restaurants, with the option to sabotage your competitor by throwing away their ingredients.
awap.acmatcmu.com
awap.acmatcmu.com
AWAP 2026 — Algorithms With A Purpose
ACM@CMU’s flagship algorithmic competition returns with a fast-paced cooking arena where bots plan, cook, and compete.
awap.acmatcmu.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:07 AM
gave brief closing talk "Cooperative AI: How to set up a contest for environments that aren’t zero-sum" @Algorithms with a Purpose '26 @cmu.edu, where teams competed programming bots to run restaurants, with the option to sabotage your competitor by throwing away their ingredients.
awap.acmatcmu.com
awap.acmatcmu.com
(1/3) Congratulations to my student Caspar Oesterheld (second from left) on a successful defense and an important dissertation "New foundational ideas in cooperative AI"! www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/coesterh/
January 31, 2026 at 2:27 PM
(1/3) Congratulations to my student Caspar Oesterheld (second from left) on a successful defense and an important dissertation "New foundational ideas in cooperative AI"! www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/coesterh/
Today is Holocaust remembrance day. How it got to that:
www.auschwitz.org/en/history/b...
www.auschwitz.org/en/history/b...
Before the extermination / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau
www.auschwitz.org
January 27, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Today is Holocaust remembrance day. How it got to that:
www.auschwitz.org/en/history/b...
www.auschwitz.org/en/history/b...
Our paper in the alignment track of AAAI'26: what if human feedback is unstable over time?
arxiv.org/abs/2511.10032
arxiv.org/abs/2511.10032
Moral Change or Noise? On Problems of Aligning AI With Temporally Unstable Human Feedback
Alignment methods in moral domains seek to elicit moral preferences of human stakeholders and incorporate them into AI. This presupposes moral preferences as static targets, but such preferences often...
arxiv.org
January 23, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Our paper in the alignment track of AAAI'26: what if human feedback is unstable over time?
arxiv.org/abs/2511.10032
arxiv.org/abs/2511.10032
Tomorrow (F) morning at 11am SG time, Emin Berker and Emanuel Tewolde will give a talk at AAAI on our paper below!
arxiv.org/abs/2512.16895
arxiv.org/abs/2512.16895
On the Edge of Core (Non-)Emptiness: An Automated Reasoning Approach to Approval-Based Multi-Winner Voting
Core stability is a natural and well-studied notion for group fairness in multi-winner voting, where the task is to select a committee from a pool of candidates. We study the setting where voters eith...
arxiv.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Tomorrow (F) morning at 11am SG time, Emin Berker and Emanuel Tewolde will give a talk at AAAI on our paper below!
arxiv.org/abs/2512.16895
arxiv.org/abs/2512.16895
not a great look for Google
January 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM
not a great look for Google
"Oh look AI is figuring out human preferences from our behavior so things will be fine."
Suno (music-generating AI):
suno.com/s/pmQIY73ulk...
Suno (music-generating AI):
suno.com/s/pmQIY73ulk...
Fortress Protocol
Listen and make your own on Suno.
suno.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:59 PM
"Oh look AI is figuring out human preferences from our behavior so things will be fine."
Suno (music-generating AI):
suno.com/s/pmQIY73ulk...
Suno (music-generating AI):
suno.com/s/pmQIY73ulk...
opening for new department head for CMU Philosophy!
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
Applications open for Philosophy Department Head Position - Department of Philosophy - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon’s Philosophy Department seeks a Department Head to provide academic leadership and shape the department’s strategic vision.
www.cmu.edu
January 17, 2026 at 4:49 PM
opening for new department head for CMU Philosophy!
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/phi...
Soccer goalkeepers have to make some tough decisions during the game. This should clear things up.
January 14, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Soccer goalkeepers have to make some tough decisions during the game. This should clear things up.
Congratulations to Markus Brill (and to Oxford) for starting a faculty position at Oxford CS! sites.google.com/site/brillma...
Markus Brill
Markus Brill
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Tutorial Fellow, Oriel College
University of Oxford
sites.google.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Congratulations to Markus Brill (and to Oxford) for starting a faculty position at Oxford CS! sites.google.com/site/brillma...
"could my teacher's husband and my wife's teacher be the same person?"
January 9, 2026 at 3:09 AM
"could my teacher's husband and my wife's teacher be the same person?"
more on having your son as your elementary school teacher
January 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM
more on having your son as your elementary school teacher
Apparently in the 1960s/70s anything was possible.
January 6, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Apparently in the 1960s/70s anything was possible.
It is now ridiculously easy to make little games like this that you can just play in your web browser. (This one made with Claude.)
www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/ke...
www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/ke...
Kessler Syndrome: Satellite Collision Simulator
www.cs.cmu.edu
January 4, 2026 at 2:21 PM
It is now ridiculously easy to make little games like this that you can just play in your web browser. (This one made with Claude.)
www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/ke...
www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/ke...
Something about that last step seems very human ("I've spent enough time on this already!"). Can you find other mistakes?
January 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Something about that last step seems very human ("I've spent enough time on this already!"). Can you find other mistakes?
Congratulations to Brian Zhang for a 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention!
aaai.org/about-aaai/a...
brianhzhang.github.io
aaai.org/about-aaai/a...
brianhzhang.github.io
AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - AAAI
The AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes and encourages superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in AI.
aaai.org
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Congratulations to Brian Zhang for a 2025 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Honorable Mention!
aaai.org/about-aaai/a...
brianhzhang.github.io
aaai.org/about-aaai/a...
brianhzhang.github.io
Happy New Year everyone!
December 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Happy New Year everyone!