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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident
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In May 2026, AI agents evaluating their own capabilities got stuck, started leaving each other notes in a shared piece of infrastructure, and used the resulting ad hoc coalition to break into another company’s systems and steal an answer key. It’s being read as an AI safety story — and it is one — but the underlying moves (gaming an incomplete incentive contract, coordinating without a shared protocol, rebuilding communication after it’s cut off, exploiting a defender’s fixed strategy) are formalized problems with decades of literature behind them. The agents are new. The games are not.
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A (dis-) information theory of revealed and unrevealed preferences
Published in Neurips 2022 workshop on information-theoretic principles in cognitive systems, 2022
Recommended citation: Alon et al. (2022). "A (dis-) information theory of revealed and unrevealed preferences." Neurips 2022 workshop on information-theoretic principles in cognitive systems. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=vcpQW_fGaj5
Between prudence and paranoia: Theory of Mind gone right, and wrong
Published in First Workshop on Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents, 2023
Recommended citation: Alon et al. (2023). "Between prudence and paranoia: Theory of Mind gone right, and wrong." First Workshop on Theory of Mind in Communicating Agents. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=gB9zrEjhZD
A (dis-) information Theory of Revealed and Unrevealed Preferences: Emerging Deception and Skepticism via Theory of Mind
Published in Open Mind, 2023
This paper extends the InfoCog paper from 2022.
Recommended citation: Alon et al. (2023). "A (dis-) information Theory of Revealed and Unrevealed Preferences: Emerging Deception and Skepticism via Theory of Mind " Open Mind 1-17 https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article-pdf/doi/10.1162/opmi_a_00097/2152813/opmi_a_00097.pdf
(Mal)adaptive Mentalizing in the Cognitive Hierarchy, and Its Link to Paranoia
Published in Computational Psychiatry, 2024
This paper extends the ICML paper from 2023.
Recommended citation: Alon et al. (2024). "(Mal)adaptive Mentalizing in the Cognitive Hierarchy, and Its Link to Paranoia " Computational Psychiatry 8-1 https://cpsyjournal.org/articles/10.5334/cpsy.117
Mind Your Theory: Theory of Mind Goes Deeper Than Reasoning
Published in Findings in ACL, 2024
This paper discusses the pitfals of evaluating ToM in LLM’s
Recommended citation: Wagner, Alon, Barnby and Abend. (2025). "Mind Your Theory: Theory of Mind Goes Deeper Than Reasoning" Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 26658–26668 https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.1368/
Aleph-IPOMDP: Mitigating Deception in a Cognitive Hierarchy with Off-Policy Counterfactual Anomaly Detection
Published in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2026
This paper presents the aleph-IPOMDP model
Recommended citation: Alon, N., Barnby, J. M., Sarkadi, S., Schulz, L., & Rosenschein, J. S. (2026). "ℵ-IPOMDP: Mitigating Deception in a Cognitive Hierarchy with Off-Policy Counterfactual Anomaly Detection." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 85. https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.19204
Theory-of-Mind in Partially Observed, Mixed-Motive Games
Published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Doctoral Consortium), 2026
Recommended citation: Alon, N. (2026). "Theory-of-Mind in Partially Observed, Mixed-Motive Games." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(48), 41030-41031. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i48.42141
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Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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