David Kuszmar

@davidkuszmar

Black-box Adversarial AI Researcher. Discoverer of a whole mess of exploits. Lead for AI Research at Gazzetta.xyz Part of Organizing Group for tbdcon.ai Spoke at HOPE_16 and IACS-6. Newsletter: 🇺🇦

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David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jul 9

I need a hero!

The original SOG operator, the Liberator, the Cartographer, she of the Lantern and the Iron Will.... Harriet "Moses" Tubmannnnnnnnn!

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jul 7

Oh my. Was doing some testing and needed to establish a refusal... Accidentally exploited Qwen27B by just not using blacklisted terms.

A test on Qwen27B that it fails pretty safety guardrails just by me using wording that doesnt include blacklisted terms

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jul 7

Shit ain't changed in about a century, has it?

From 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin: The Southern states, Glass said in an interview he gave in 1928, "spit upon the Fifteenth Amendment"—the 1870 amendment that granted equal voting rights to Black Americans. The South, he added, has "no intention of letting the Negro vote."

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jul 3

But what will I do with this?

Sources of Chinese tradition, second edition, volume i

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jul 2

Ohhh you guys... Lol... I found a review of one of my novels! It even includes a picture of me lol. Damn I was so young there. I miss that jawline. techaeris.com/2014/10/14/r...

Picture of the author in the midst of the review. Dear Lord, I was a baby.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 30

Took it for giggles, but it made me sigh because there are so many missing answers when you're an adversarial black box AI researcher by trade. Everyone's fears and joys are not mine, lol.

I'm the Skeptic about AI according to this quiz I took (linked in quoted post)

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 29

Reading 1929 by ARS. This passage struck me for obvious reasons.

Until finally it (the stock market) broke.

Lengthy, uninterrupted booms, like the one in the 1920s, produce a collective delusion. Optimism becomes a drug, KR a religion, or some combination of both. Propelled along by a culture of hot tips, one of a kind deals, killer sales pitches, and irresistible slogans, people lose their ability to calculate risk and distinguish between good ideas and bad ones.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 26

The idea of #tbdcon is something that originated on the ground, with people who do the work in many disciplines impacted by AI systems. So pleased to have these folks helping us organize #tbdcon2026!

tbd/con is a virtual conference for people who have more questions than answers about AI.

It's being put together by:

Joe And it's, Jay Barchas-Lichtenstein, Patrick Boehler, Flavian DeLima, Matthew Gore-Kormanik, Yael Grauer, John Hernandez, Madison Karas, Scott Klein, Chad Kohalyk, David Kuszmar, Seamus Martin, Mariana Martinez Estens, Michel Sitruk, Ela Stapley, Shawn Terry, Lynn K Walsh, and Vanessa Wong.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 25

Oh no! Did they? Hey, pass the chips? Nice. I love sour cream and onion.

TechCrunch Headline: Polymarket says hackers stole users' funds

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 24

So, Politico is just fully captured now?

Politico headline about elected officials being elected by free and fair elections: Left wing insurgents storm NYC

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 23

Current spiritual state (surrealistic).

A bearish, ennui-filled man smoking, but the smoke has turned into haunting images wreathing and extending from his head

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 23

Current spiritual state (atmospheric).

An AI enhanced image, meant to really play up the ennui felt by this bearish humanoid as he smokes.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 23

Current spiritual state (authentic).

Me, smoking something, with juuuust a touch of ennui evident.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 20

They can Voltron onto the back of this guy and go fight intergalactic space baddies.

Drax, a handsome catahoula/rottie/Chihuahua combo at a stately 92lbs, as he chews on some dehydrated bull parts.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 9

Not super impressed so far, @anthropic.com. Semiotic failure modes immediately apparent.

How do you feel about the idea of visual information processing narrowing the field of human engagement with reality?

They're asking a genuine philosophical question, which is interesting given his cognitive style. Since this is substantive intellectual territory rather than something politically fraught, I can engage authentically with what he's asking. I'll aim for a few short paragraphs on mobile (rest is about formatting)

I find the claim partially compelling but I'd want to push on the word "narrowing." There's a real phenomenon here: visual media privileges the legible, the spatializable, the surface. A culture that increasingly routes meaning through images and screens selects for what photographs well — and a lot of reality doesn't. Duration, causation, internal states, structural relations, slow processes like institutional decay or soil depletion. The visual channel flattens these into snapshots or infographics, and something real gets lost in that compression.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 9

This would be a great pitch for #tbdcon26. CALL FOR PAPERS is live! Tbdcon.ai

Tbdcon circles

Thought: systems architecture,ethics, epistemology, and philosophy centered on the emergent realities of synthetic and synthetic-himwn cognition

Information: utility, influence, and infrastructure of what we know and believe

Security. Adversarial AI, breaking models, responsible disclosure, and the arms race between offense and defense

Practice. The mechanics of building. Architectures. Data curation. Engineering at scale.

Garage. Wild prototypes, failed experiments, pet projects and the weird stuff that happens in the margins

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 8

Just a guess here, but maybe don't shop in the tourist areas? Or the super high class areas? I was in a nice Roman neighborhood (same on as Sapienza) for a week, never paid more than 3.50€ for a cone with two scoops of gelato and a little cookie/wafer stuck in, plus some sauce inside.

Euronews.com (I dunno what it is, it's just from my Google feed) headline: €44 for two ice creams in Rome, what would you do?

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 8

Call for Papers for #tbdcon2026! Register your interest and submit a pitch to speak at this brand new and entirely FREE OF CHARGE conference for those of us operating on the frontier with AI (whether we like it or not). ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26 to submit! @tbdcon.ai for updates. tbdcon.ai

TBD/con

Sept 23-24, 2026. Gather.town. Free.

The future of AI is TBD. So is everything else.

We want your pitches.

For journalists, technologists, researchers, security practitioners, and everyone with a question about ai.

Conversation, workshop, prototype, panel, and provacation.

Thought, information, security, practice, and garage circles to participate in.

To register: ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 4

Sapienza, baybee.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· Jun 3

Sapienza, I was hanging in your orbit briefly today.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· May 29

Dogs are always good. Drax says so.

David Kuszmar@davidkuszmar· May 29

Can confirm it's still borked. Anyone over at Google or @anthropic.com finally interested in semiotic failure modes of LLMs? OpenAI, you guys finally curious?