Tomer Ullman

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. Computation, cognition, development.

Articles & links

I gave comments for a news piece in Science on a recent preprint on AI finding loopholes ("Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society", Liu et al.) since these things are always cut short, I wanted to expand here: www.science.org/content/arti... arxiv.org/abs/2606.04075

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I gave comments for a news piece in Science on a recent preprint on AI finding loopholes ("Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society", Liu et al.) since these things are always cut short, I wanted to expand here: www.science.org/content/arti... arxiv.org/abs/2606.04075

Large Language Models Hack Rewards, and Society arxiv.org
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Recent commentary

"I used an LLM to help me write, but it was just to polish the style and grammar" is something you've probably come across, or done yourself. Many conferences and journals and teachers are ok with this. But does it...? Just focus on the style and grammar...?

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I'm chaperoning my 4th grade daughter on a school trip and one boy next to me just taunted the other by yelling "HUGO YOU ARE LITERALLY AI GENERATED!!"

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I just came back from a Dagstuhl Seminar on "social intelligence in AI". There's much to consider, but I worry a current path we're on is:

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ML's Lament (to the tune of 'Part of Your World')

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(i'm reviewing papers for a few ML conferences atm) we should give standard intros standard numbers, so people have the option of skipping them in both writing and reading e.g. a paragraph saying "LLMs are amazing [cite], BUT they still can't do many things [cite]" will be designated OPENING #7

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