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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

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