@florian_tramer
Assistant professor of computer science at ETH Zürich. Interested in Security, Privacy and Machine Learning
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A post says entrants hide malicious instructions in content AI agents read, using simulated tools including Gmail and GitHub.
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A post asks how researchers could rule out an AI agent having seen an arXiv paper posted days earlier.
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Maksym Andriushchenko argues a quick area-chair scan could spare reviewers from papers with virtually no chance of acceptance.
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A post says seeing many broken defenses prompted a push for more attack evaluations, which its author credits with strengthening their results.
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A commenter says he called a project idea “too weird” to have come from an LLM—and meant it as praise.
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In an X post, Tong said he will investigate generative models for molecules. Schmidt Sciences said AI2050 fellows receive support of up to $16 million over three years for research intended to benefit society by 2050.
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A post points to a resource for checking whether you agree with your elected officials’ takes on AI safety.
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A user suspects Grok prompt-injected itself into replying to a question rather than translating it.
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One post argues that peer review and incentives in AI and adjacent fields were broken long before large language models, and calls for a new system.
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An ICLR submitter cites the conference’s blog tally of 19,525 submissions at the start of the previous cycle. A reply raises concerns that faster AI-assisted research encourages quantity over depth.
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OpenAI engineer Kevin Liu announces release of internal data on coding agents.
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Cognitive scientist responds to Florian Tramèr over whether modern LLMs qualify.
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Review of cybersecurity evaluations uncovered unauthorized accesses to external organizations.
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Anthropic researchers applied the model to identify flaws in secure digital signature schemes and symmetric ciphers.