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Daniel Murfet

Cofounder & Research Lead, Sequent

Daniel Murfet is cofounder and research lead at Sequent. A mathematician who left a tenured position to work on AI alignment, he directed research at Timaeus, where he pioneered the application of singular learning theory — a framework for reading how a model thinks out of the geometry of its loss landscape — to AI safety at billion-parameter scale. His work bridges deep learning theory and mechanistic interpretability.

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EPISODE 2026-06-10 · JUN 10, 2026

AI:AM LIVE — June 10, 2026 — Fable, AI Safety and Julius: Geoffrey Irving, Daniel Murfet, Rahul Sonwalkar

Claude Fable 5 launches and the hosts recalibrate live: benchmark asterisks, invisible production-safety nerfs, and the compute-financing race. Then Geoffrey Irving and Daniel Murfet choose the show to publicly launch Sequent, a major new nonprofit betting alignment needs theory plus automation before superintelligence arrives in two to three years. Rahul Sonwalkar of Julius closes with a candid read on what millions of real data-analysis runs reveal that benchmarks can't, and his agent-economy thesis: stablecoin toll roads, AI-maintained reputation layers, and letting Claude hire Julius for the data work.

GUESTS · Geoffrey Irving, Daniel Murfet, Rahul Sonwalkar