AI:AM GUEST

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.

APPEARANCES

One AI:AM appearance.

EPISODE 2026-06-10 · JUN 10, 2026

AI:AM LIVE — June 10, 2026

Claude Fable 5 launch-day reactions — invisible nerfs, Opus fallbacks, and compute economics — then Geoffrey Irving and Daniel Murfet launch Sequent, a new nonprofit betting alignment needs theory plus automation before superintelligence, and Rahul Sonwalkar of Julius on harnesses, token maxing, and the coming agent economy.

GUESTS · Geoffrey Irving, Daniel Murfet, Rahul Sonwalkar