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Melanie Mitchell

Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, AI and cognitive science

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Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, AI and cognitive science with public evidence across AI research.

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Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
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Worth revisiting this prescient paper from @mmitchell.bsky.social and others from @hf.co : arxiv.org/abs/2502.02649

Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed arxiv.org
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  • Four Hugging Face researchers argue in an arXiv paper that fully autonomous AI agents should not be developed.
  • The paper proposes a five-level autonomy scale, from a Level 1 simple processor to a Level 5 agent that writes and executes its own code.
  • Their central claim is that risks to people scale with how much control the user cedes to the agent.
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Yet another way to jailbreak LLMs: When asking them for forbidden information, make them think the request is part of their chain-of-thought: arxiv.org/abs/2603.12277

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion arxiv.org
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  • A new ICML 2026 paper argues prompt injection succeeds because LLMs judge the source of text by how it sounds, not by role tags.
  • The authors' role probes show injected text lands in the same representational space as the trusted role it imitates, predicting attack success before generation.
  • Their CoT Forgery attack hits around 60% success on frontier models, while a destyling defense reportedly drops success from 61% to roughly 10%.
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I'm just now reading @randomwalker.bsky.social's writeup of his ICML keynote. It is very insightful. Everyone thinking about the future of work in the age of AI should read this. www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...

What will be left for us to work on? normaltech.ai
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I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...

Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the Heart of LLMs yalereview.org
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  • AI systems excel on some tasks while failing surprisingly on similar ones, a pattern Mitchell calls 'jagged intelligence.'
  • Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder, is quoted saying LLMs 'generalize dramatically worse than people' in a way that is 'very fundamental.'
  • Mitchell says AI researchers, herself included, are still struggling to design effective evaluation methods for LLMs' uneven capabilities.
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Also, Shannon's original proposals for language modeling? And even earlier, Markov chains? In case it's helpful, I wrote a bit about the history here: oecs.mit.edu/pub/zp5n8ivs...

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The ultimate tldr on the OpenAI "rogue model" hacking incident 😅 (h/t @linege1 on X) But it would be useful to know the prompts OpenAI gave to the model....

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Why is Google AI Overview still so incredibly bad??

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