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Geoffrey Irving

Cofounder & Chief Scientist, Sequent

Geoffrey Irving is cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sequent, a new nonprofit alignment research organization that launched on this episode. He previously served as Chief Scientist of the UK's AI Security Institute, led language model teams at DeepMind, and did early RLHF work at OpenAI. He authored the foundational 'AI safety via debate' (2018) and works on scalable oversight, formal verification, and the theoretical foundations of alignment.

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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