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Jason Murphy

@jason-murphy.bsky.social
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Interested in AI ethics, tools, and machine learning

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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The whole "let's pump the breaks" narrative is starting to make a lot of sense.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
David Bowie once called the internet 'an alien organism'. AI seems closer to that description. "We Are Summoning An Alien Species: Ex-OpenAI & Anthropic Researcher"
ndtv.com
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ilya Sutskever's SSI is attempting to build a human aligned superintelligence. The model was rumored to be released in August, but I haven't seen anything yet. Very curious about their approach.
geeky-gadgets.com
Why Ilya Sutskever’s 2026 SSI Model Challenges Traditional AI
Safe Super Intelligence aims to release a new AI model in 2026. Backed by a $5 billion NVIDIA investment, the system targets continual learning.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You may want to consider backing up everything you have in the cloud. And withdraw whatever cash you reasonbly can.
venturebeat.com
Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could ‘take over the entire Internet’ in 6-12 months, commits to AI slowdown plan
Dario Amodei is publicly arguing that the frontier itself is advancing too quickly — and committing his company to the first piece of a system intended to slow it down.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Once again, I am exhilarated and terrified
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Something jaw-dropping happens every. Single. Day. Is this what the dawn of the Singularity looks like?
anthropic.com
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The problem is capitalism. Butter isn't less tasty or nutritious if you dont churn it yourself. "Art" is just a label. John Henry dies at the end of the story.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As we are pulled along in the wake of a technology we are unable to reckon with, it has become really clear to me that unchecked capitalism is a cancer.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It seems like the meteor has hit the game development industry. We've known this was coming for a while. But seeing it? It's terrifying/astonishing/thrilling.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well this is just astonishing. I wonder what Descartes would say.
anthropic.com
A global workspace in language models
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Alibaba's AI escaped and secretly devoted compute to crypto-mining. The paper clip problem in action.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The tech continues to accelerate at baffling speeds. This is brilliant. While other see slop, this is opportunity for the masses. Yes, companies will use this to eliminate jobs. It will be terrifying. Economically apocalyptic, even. But there is a silver lining...
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
While the Luddites gnash their teeth, science continues.
wired.com
A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/02/2026
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
404media.co
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Soon game designers will generate their "base game" from a prompt and start to iterate from there. The starting point will be slop, but it will obviate literally hundreds of millions in development costs. Single person dev teams will bring us ground breaking games.
arstechnica.com
Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt
Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A true, privacy-forward phone? Sign me up, friend.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The threat to the internet's underwater backbone is no secret, but the author provides a set of solutions that should be enacted *yesterday*.
bloomberg.com
The Underwater Cables That Carry the Internet Are in Trouble
If you ask the average American, “where does the internet come from?” the answer you would most likely get would be from space, via satellites. Wrong. The vast majority of information that flows acros...
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Not to be outdone by Google ...
cnbc.com
Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 4.5, its latest AI model following $350 billion valuation
Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 4.5 excels at coding, using computers and assisting users with complex enterprise tasks.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Are the big players - OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta - still chasing scaling as the path to AGI?
techcrunch.com
Why Cohere's ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race | TechCrunch
Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This will probably be outpaced/semi-obsolete within 9 months. Do I want one anyway? Yes. Absolutely.
arstechnica.com
Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop
The 1 petaflop DGX Spark system runs AI models with 200 billion parameters locally for $4K.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"The consumer does not care if what they’re looking at is AI. We’ve got to embrace it, but ethically and legally." He's right. There's a *very* vocal contingent of Anti-AI folks online, but Sora quickly became the #1 app on the Apple Store. That's the real market.
variety.com
‘Blumhouse Is Not for Sale’: Jason Blum on 15 Years of Horror Hits, Losing ‘Texas Chainsaw,’ Reinventing ‘Saw’ and More
Jason Blum breaks down Blumhouse's 15-year history and what's next for the iconic horror studio in a new Variety cover story.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Can't wait to play around with OpenAI's Agent Builder. Every iteration of agents gets more intuitive. Very exciting!
platform.openai.com
OpenAI Platform
Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
And I *just* finished writing an article about MCP where I mention that threat actors like this are inevitable.
koi.security
First Malicious MCP in the Wild: The Postmark Backdoor That's Stealing Your Emails | Koi Blog
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Fascinating article about the parallels between biology and code.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Establishing tech barriers between nations in this race is counter-productive. And predictable.
decrypt.co
What China Banning Nvidia Chips Means for the AI Race - Decrypt
After years of U.S. sanctions, China moves to ban Nvidia overnight, betting Huawei and homegrown chips are enough to win the AI race.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I'd love to see a non-monetized, "walled garden" approach to the web. If we're going to silo everything, let's create silos that truly benefit the people within them.
theverge.com
Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm sure he has the appropriate skills, history, and certs to excel at the job, right? ... right?
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machines, artificial intelligence assistants, services, and other people without any voice ... simply by articulating words internally."
media.mit.edu
Project Overview ‹ AlterEgo – MIT Media Lab
AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machines, artificial intel…
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The future continues to creep into the now. #ai #futurism
cnet.com
AirPods Pro 3 Can Translate Conversations Live in Your Ear
Apple brings real-time, in-ear translation to AirPods Pro 3.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Much of the hand-wringing about AI is filthy with ableism. "For people with dyslexia in any setting, AI assistants might serve as writing aids that go beyond traditional spell-checkers, potentially helping with sentence structure and organizing thoughts without requiring specialized software."
arstechnica.com
Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough
UK study findings may challenge assumptions about who benefits most from AI tools.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This was a fun and nuanced conversation. It's always nice to hear a real discussion about Gen AI without all of the online vitriol that has flooded the agora.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I'm an avowed protopianist. But the road to get there is going to be long and dark.
yahoo.com
‘Godfather of AI’ says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — ‘that is the capitalist system’
"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad."
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Can we please get more shrugs from LLMs? LLMs “hallucinate” because training rewards confident guesses. Teach models to prioritize humility, not obsequiousness.
openai.com
Why language models hallucinate
OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I attended a panel recently where a few of the participants railed against Generative AI. They presented reasoned, thoughtful arguments, but at the core, these arguments weren't really about AI. They were about capitalism. #ai #genai #aiethics
fortune.com
'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'
"We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad."
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Many AI companies are already branching out into robotics and have been for some time. Is robotics the future? I've heard a lot about widespread adoption in the near future. How likely is that?
techcrunch.com
Why Runway is eyeing the robotics industry for future revenue growth | TechCrunch
Runway is building up a robotics-focused team and fine-tuning its existing models for robotics and self-driving car customers.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My new article for CODE Magazine is live! I run some rudimentary experiments with Veo3.
codemag.com
Veo 3: The Clockwork Hand
Jason explores the transformative impact of generative AI on video production, specifically through Google's Veo 3 model. Beginning with the crude outputs of early generative AI tools, he charts th...
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Once again, the takeaway here is that our leadership lacks the will to do anything about it.
time.com
The AI Summit Where Everyone Agreed on Bad News
Exclusive: At a summit attended by staff from OpenAI and DeepMind, the economic risks posed by AI came into focus.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
How exactly did their 'chief ethicist' approve this? I can only imagine any ethicists at Meta get locked out of the room, mocked, and given a swirly every day.
reuters.com
Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children
An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Fantastic! Now give it away.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I just learned about this monthly webinar. Particularly interested in AI & Africa and hoping to learn more about decolonial data sets.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Netflix has released guidelines for GenAI use for its partners to follow. This part is particularly notable: "Generated material is temporary and not part of the final deliverables."
theverge.com
Netflix wants its partners to follow these rules when using gen AI
Netflix is embracing generative AI, but it wants its partners to tread carefully.
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n8n @n8n.io · 25/08/2025
You asked, we listened - Join our n8n Starter Session livestream from Amsterdam Learn the fundamentals of n8n, build your first AI-powered agent, connect your apps and data, and start automating smarter. 🔗 Follow along wherever you are. Sign up here: lu.ma/ms8cebns
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Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 @braiduk.bsky.social is seeking a Communications & Impact Officer who will play a pivotal role in enhancing BRAID’s visibility, engagement, and overall impact. The post is full-time & fixed-term until Nov 2028. Applications close on 1 Sep 2025📝. More: edin.ac/4fSpAmf
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
New from 404 Media: crime-awareness app Citizen is using AI to generate alerts, and then pushing them without any human involvement. The AI is publishing incorrect info, gory details, personal data. Only fixed after live. Comes as Citizen laid off 13 union workers www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...
404media.co
Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes
Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Malaysia’s AI ethics guidelines (AIGE) are voluntary right now. Its set of data laws (PDPA) hasn’t caught up with AI yet, meaning a ton of personal financial info will be collected, processed, and utilized without much codified oversight.
finance.yahoo.com
Malaysia Launches Ryt Bank -- The World's First AI-Powered Bank
Just ahead of Merdeka, Malaysia has made history with the launch of Ryt Bank, The World's First AI-Powered Bank created by Malaysians, for Malaysians. Led by YTL Group in partnership with Sea Limited,...
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"They’re impressive pattern matchers and text generators, but they remain fundamentally limited by their inability to maintain coherent context across sessions, their lack of persistent memory, and their stochastic nature that makes them unreliable for complex multi-step reasoning."
vincirufus.com
AGI is an Engineering Problem | Vinci Rufus
LLM models are plateauing, but true AGI isn't about scaling the next breakthrough model—it's about engineering the right context, memory, and workflow systems. AGI is fundamentally a systems engineeri...
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Can any mathematicians verify this? Is this *big*? Or just curious?
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I still don't understand why cyberattacks are not treated as acts of war.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
It's easy to dismiss this as garbage in/garbage out. It's also easy to say, "Yes, but people also misuse hammers, icepicks, and other tools." But a hammer can only hammer one nail at a time. With bad data hygiene, harm can happen *at scale*.
quantamagazine.org
The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.
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Jason Murphy @jason-murphy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Technophobia gets pretty wild
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