Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL) at CMU @FOCAL_lab

Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab @CarnegieMellon. Creating foundations of game theory for advanced AI w/ focus on achieving cooperation. Directed by @conitzer. cs.cmu.edu/~focal/ Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined January 2022

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Cooperative AI Foundation @coop_ai

2 days ago

‘Foundations and Frontiers of Cooperative AI’ - with @conitzer (@CarnegieMellon) - youtu.be/nfnbxKWGM50?fe…

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

5 days ago

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

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

a week ago

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" youtube.com/watch?v=nfnbxK… @coop_ai

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 weeks ago

Congratulations to Emin Berker for receiving the Best Talk Award at COMSOC'25! (in the picture with coauthor Edith Elkind; paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.16973 )

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 weeks ago

Tomorrow at COMSOC, Emin Berker will present our paper on creating clone candidates & strategic nomination (e.g., does the leaderboard rule on Chatbot Arena create incentives to submit/withhold slightly differently fine-tuned versions of the same model?). arxiv.org/abs/2502.16973

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

short paper by @Yoshua_Bengio and me about what LLMs tell us about our own mental lives (extended from earlier blog post) philpapers.org/rec/YOSWDL

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

(1/n) I noticed that on the IMO where several LLM-based systems just got gold medals, the fifth problem (the last one solved by Gemini Deep Think) was a game problem, so I had no excuse :-) not to try it myself first and then see how the solutions compared.

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

2 months ago

The Nash75 talks are on YouTube! Below is my talk "Game Theory for AI Agents" (link also gives all other talks on the side). youtube.com/watch?v=WO5xJI…

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

3 months ago

(2/2) Poster Thu 16:30 Observation Interference in Partially Observable Assistance Games (led by Scott Emmons and @C_Oesterheld) -- a model of the human-AI value alignment problem which allows the human and the AI assistant to have partial observations. arxiv.org/abs/2412.17797

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

3 months ago

(1/2) Two papers with authors from our @FOCAL_lab being presented at ICML @icmlconf in the next two days: Oral Wed 16:15 & Poster Wed 16:30 Expected Variational Inequalities (led by Brian Zhang and Ioannis Anagnostides). arxiv.org/abs/2502.18605

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

3 months ago

Want to know which game is better without making equilibrium selection assumptions? Caspar Oesterheld (@C_Oesterheld) is about to present our @FOCAL_lab paper at TARK, "Choosing What Game to Play Without Selecting Equilibria"! andrew.cmu.edu/user/coesterh/…

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

3 months ago

A fantastic group of young researchers at the Cooperative AI Summer School, bodes well for the future of cooperative AI!

Cooperative AI Foundation @coop_ai

3 months ago

A fantastic group of young researchers at the Cooperative AI Summer School, bodes well for the future of cooperative AI!

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

3 months ago

(2/2) From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination W 1:30pm session Led by Emin Berker&relevant to evaluating AI, where it is easy to create very similar variants of a given AI system ("clones"). arxiv.org/abs/2502.16973

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

3 months ago

(1/2) @AcmSIGecom 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

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

3 months ago

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

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Jan Kulveit @jankulveit

4 months ago

Human-aligned AI Summer School @humanalignedai has an updated list of speakers @FazlBarez (Oxford) @lrhammond (@coop_ai) @EvanHub (Anthropic) @g_leech_ (@LeverhulmeCFI) Nathaniel Sauerberg (@FOCAL_lab) @noahysiegel (@GoogleDeepMind) @stanislavfort and Torben Swoboda. Apply ~now

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Cooperative AI Foundation @coop_ai

4 months ago

Join the first seminar in our new 'Updates in Cooperative AI' series exploring our recent 'Multi-Agent Risks' report, live June 26th (5pm BST, 9am PT, 12pm ET) alongside @lrhammond @ghadfield @MichaelD1729.

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

4 months ago

Looking forward to participating in the cooperative AI panel at AAMAS tonight! @AAMASconf @FOCAL_lab

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Vincent Conitzer @conitzer

4 months ago

Our Foundations of Cooperative AI tutorial at AAMAS is about to start (room Richard B)! All the materials are at the link below. @FOCAL_lab @AAMASconf cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/FOCA…