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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University

@philiptorr.bsky.social
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Professor Oxford in Machine Learning Involved in many start ups including FiveAI, Onfido, Oxsight, AIStetic. Eigent, etc I occasionally look here but am mostly on linkedin, find me there, www.linkedin.com/in/philip-torr-1085702

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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Official annoucement here, excited to be joining this set of fellows as a Schmidt AI2050 Fellow www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-...
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Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society - Schmidt Sciences
Media Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org                   NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences announced today that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit hu...
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
this looks great, but i have the strange urge to share it without fully reading it.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This seems a bit like punishing the victims rather than perpetrators
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Dinner to celebrate Oxford's Deep Mind scholars with Deep Mind founder, Demis Hassabis, and new incoming PhD, Anda! Thanks to Deep Mind and Demis for generously supporting so many students. In the beautiful Divinity school of Oxford.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New Ellison institute at Oxford, set to bring, 100 or 1000s of jobs, lnkd.in/e6HA-_ZP
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
uper happy to be one of the organizers of this, eurips.cc, now an option to officially present your papers in Europe and save greenhouse gas!!!!! Please repost and spread the word!!! Please repost!!!!
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EurIPS Copenhagen 2025 - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Fazl Barez @fbarez.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Co-authored with: Isaac Friend, Keir Reid, Igor Krawczuk, Vincent Wang, @jakobmokander.bsky.social kander.bsky.social , @philiptorr.bsky.social , Julia C Morse and Robert Trager
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Kander (@kander.bsky.social)
Malware malbec and gummie bears!
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
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As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time. | Philip Torr, FR...
As AI proliferates I am also interested in how we can prevent some Orwellian world coming about-it's a societal issue at its heart-but here is a technical paper in the mean time.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Youtuber Sabine Hossenfelder has picked up on our paper on how to fool AI agents, you can watch her desrcibing our work here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY7_....
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AI is becoming dangerous. Are we ready?
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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Zhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers Wei Pang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, @edwardjian.bsky.social, Xi He, @philiptorr.bsky.social tl;dr: great stuff! arxiv.org/abs/2505.21497
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Had the privilege of speaking at Oxford Brookes graduation today, was really fun event, and inspiring to see. Amazing to see people off on their, hopefully, exciting journeys.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
To join us on the day go to: dit.webex.com/dit/j.php?MT... Password: trade123 (87233123 when dialling from a phone or video system)
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Just about to speak at this to promote UK PLC! www.linkedin.com/posts/polly-...
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#policy #universities #tech #researchers #professionals #ai | Polly Benjamin
📢 Are you an AI researcher or engineer looking for your next career move? Join leading UK AI business professionals and academics on a webinar on 14th May to explore the strength of the UK’s AI sector...
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
research position www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
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Job Details | Philip Torr
JOB!!!! Adel is amazing
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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C Emde @cemde.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Read more: cemde.github.io/Domain-Certi... Thanks to my amazing collaborators: - @alasdair-p.bsky.social, Preetham Arvind, @maximek3.bsky.social, Tom Rainforth, @philiptorr.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk - Bernard Ghanem at KAUST - Thomas Lukasiewicz at @tuwien.at. (7/7)
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Shh, don't say that! Domain Certification in LLMs
Domain Certification - A novel framework providing provable, adversarial defenses for LLMs safety.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Cooperation on AI safety is necessary but also comes with potential risks. In our new paper, we identify technical AI safety areas that present comparatively lower security concerns, making them more suitable for international cooperation—even between geopolitical rivals. lnkd.in/e_FzCFW9
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We will be hosting a live Q&A to discuss our project on April 10 at 11:30AM BST. Join here: lu.ma/encode-proje... More about the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship: encode.pillar.vc/blog-posts/f...
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Encode Project Q&A – AI for Drug Discovery · Zoom · Luma
Join us for a virtual info session to learn more about the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship. 🧪 This session will feature Philip Torr, one of of our faculty…
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I wanted to coin the "Torr Law", which is that if you think of a research idea, it will magically appear on the internet within a few days, case in point, this is a cool first step on the way to making AI scientists paperswithcode.com/paper/bench-...
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Papers with Code - @Bench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Human-centered Assistive Technology
No code available yet.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Excited to be working with the UK Excited to be work with the UK AI Security Institute, even more important than normal in these turbulent times. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
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Strengthening AI Resilience | AISI Work | Philip Torr
Excited to be work with the UK AI Security Institute, even more important than normal in these turbulent times.
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Fazl Barez @fbarez.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
📄 Dive In: paperhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19964. Work led by @lovisheindrich.bsky.social - [Lovis is in the job market, you should hire him, he is great!] and thanks to @philiptorr.bsky.social and @vthost.bsky.social for advising.
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Do Sparse Autoencoders Generalize? A Case Study of Answerability
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising approach in language model interpretability, offering unsupervised extraction of sparse features. For interpretability methods to succeed, they m...
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Lukas Aichberger @aichberger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🏛️ This work was made possible with OATML and TVG at the University of Oxford (@ox.ac.uk). Special thanks to @yaringal.bsky.social, @adelbibi.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, and @alasdair-p.bsky.social for their contributions. 📖 Read the paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10809
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Attacking Multimodal OS Agents with Malicious Image Patches
Recent advances in operating system (OS) agents enable vision-language models to interact directly with the graphical user interface of an OS. These multimodal OS agents autonomously perform computer-...
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Zhenjun Zhao @ericzzj.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Stable Virtual Camera: Generative View Synthesis with Diffusion Models Jensen (Jinghao)Zhou, Hang Gao, Vikram Voleti, @adyaman.bsky.social, Chun-Han Yao, @markboss.bsky.social, @philiptorr.bsky.social, Christian Rupprecht, Varun Jampani arxiv.org/abs/2503.14489
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
this is a great idea, having a parallel Neurips in Europe is long over due, especially as travel to the US is difficult now for a lot of scientists. Thoughts? www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
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NeurIPS participation in Europe | Philip Torr | 10 comments
this is a great idea, having a parallel Neurips in Europe is long over due, especially as travel to the US is difficult now for a lot of scientists. Thoughts?… | 10 comments on LinkedIn
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is an amazing opportunity, please repost We have two visiting posts open in collaboration with Pillar,VC. You'll get: - £115k salary - £100k compute - Access to AI models, tools, and agent systems, pls repost www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
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Reposting this opportunity as it is a great one! | Philip Torr
Reposting this opportunity as it is a great one!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Note Oxford has advertized many AI positions including a new faculty position, lnkd.in/eGYekxGy, see more here eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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UK ‘second most attractive country for investment’, survey finds
The survey of chief executives, published ahead of the World Economic Forum, follows an upgraded growth forecast from the IMF
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
super excited to be speaking at starmus this year www.starmus.com
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STARMUS Festival
Starmus is a global festival of science communication and art that brings together the most brilliant minds on the planet
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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Why ‘Beating China’ in AI Brings Its Own Risks
The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Watch this space , we shall be creating some fellowships with Novo Nordisks, keep an eye out here www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...
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Novo Nordisk - Oxford Fellowships
The Novo Nordisk – Oxford Fellowship Programme aims to support the development of a new generation of exceptional researchers in the field of diabetes and other cardiometabolic diseases, who will beco...
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Visitor positions for PHDs with track record on agentic systems available in summer, email me direct philip.torr@eng.ox.ac.uk
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We will have a position for a summer visitor to work on AI Agents, as part of a collaboration with Microsoft, PhD and experience with agentic systems required.
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We are offering a UNIQ+ internship in machine learning. UNIQ+ www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g.... #machine-learning #Oxford #internships
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UNIQ+ | University of Oxford
UNIQ+ Research Internships are aimed at talented undergraduates from under-represented groups, who would find continuing into postgraduate study a challenge for reasons other than their academic
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
We are offering a UNIQ+ internship in machine learning. UNIQ+ check on elibility and details how to apply here: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
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UNIQ+ | University of Oxford
UNIQ+ Research Internships are aimed at talented undergraduates from under-represented groups, who would find continuing into postgraduate study a challenge for reasons other than their academic
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Professor Philip Torr, Oxford University @philiptorr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
test!!
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