Oliver Rochford
cyberfuturists.com
Oliver Rochford
@cyberfuturists.com
Cybersecurity Futurist, Neo-generalist, Researcher, Skeptic, X-Gartner Analyst. #Cybersecurity & #Cyberpunk - hi-tech/lo-life, techno-realist
I think the jury is out on whether LLMs make people more productive, but I think it's pretty clear it makes many more dishonest.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Anyone else getting tired of people on Bluesky posting content from X? If I wanted to still see mental diarrhoea I wouldn't have migrated
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
All of the anthropomorphization of AI is the blowback from "you don't need to be technical to work in tech". Now we have a bunch of marketers and sales people in charge who think AI is sentient.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Now I know why I've always hated poets.....

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
💥 OUT NOW! THE CURIOUS AI 96!! 💥

This week, Tech firms over estimate the demand for AI, and human-shaped robots, are we asking for too much, too early?

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Curious AI Weekly Digest — Issue 96
For pragmatic decision-makers & foresight pros. Techno-realism, second-order effects, and a touch of Stratechery wit.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I think that the more intellectually bankrupt Silicon Valley is becoming, the more desperate the quest for superintelligence, because we always seek what we don't have.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In 2026, we can expect the emergence of cost-maximizing attacks -techniques that deliberately inflate the operational cost of AI agent-based SOCs by generating adversarial traffic, ambiguous alerts, or high-complexity workloads.

cyberfuturist.medium.com/the-emergenc...
The Emergence of “Cost-maximizing” Adversarial AI Attacks.
Prediction Restatement
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November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by Oliver Rochford
These are not serious people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This explains so much! I guess lots of tech ceo's are dogfooding AI...

Increased use of AI tools can lead users to overestimate their own skills and knowledge, potentially causing inflated self-confidence.

www.livescience.com/technology/a...
The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilities
Researchers found that AI flattens the bell curve of a common principle in human psychology, known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, giving us all the illusion of competence.
www.livescience.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
💥 OUT NOW! THE CURIOUS AI 95! 💥

This week - when AI superstars do Indie, and what if this time it's different, and efficiencies don't unlock wage growth?

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Curious AI Weekly Digest — Issue 95
November 14, 2025
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November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Sam Altman sounds a lot like WeWork did

OpenAI says it plans to report stunning annual losses through 2028 and then turn wildly profitable just two years later

fortune.com/2025/11/12/o...
OpenAI says it plans to report stunning annual losses through 2028—and then turn wildly profitable just two years later | Fortune
The company anticipates burning through roughly $9 billion this year on $13 billion in sales, a cash burn rate of approximately 70% of revenue.​
fortune.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Russian Robots seem much like Russian Soldiers
Watch Russia's AI robot fall seconds after being unveiled

bbc.com/news/videos/crre8g5e45jo
Watch: Russia's AI robot falls seconds after being unveiled
Footage shows the moment Russia's first anthropomorphic robot fell just seconds after its debut
bbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It's not a "Digital AI worker", it's just a computer program.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
How are you going to afford a robot when you don't have a job? Who owns the means of production will be the biggest point of contention in the near future.
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Japanese Woman Marries AI Character She Generated on ChatGPT

www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/j...
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Oliver Rochford
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Full on rogue state territory
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
🔥 OUT NOW! THE CURIOUS AI 94! 🔥

This week with a selection of expectation-resetting articles and retractions, and deep dive on recent AI hallucination and disinformation fails.

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Curious AI Weekly Digest — Issue 94
November 7, 2025
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November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Message to Thiel - Libertarians don't force or coerce other people. That's what authoritarians do.
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It's a drone, not a robot. Must be handy for people who want servants in the house without having servants in the house
www.roadtovr.com/helper-robot...
In-home Helper Robot 'NEO' Uses Remote VR Operators to Help with Chores
NEO is a humanoid robot from Palo Alto-based robotics startup 1X that could one day autonomously help out around your home. For now though, it’s using human operators wearing Quest 3 headsets to pick ...
www.roadtovr.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
History will never forgive someone who lied to take his country to war.
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The crash isn't going to start in AI. It is starting in private credit. But that's what will pop the AI bubble.
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I wonder if he'll blame the antichrist again 🤔

Drone start-up backed by PeterThiel crashed and burned in armed forces trials

www.ft.com/content/ebdf...
Drone start-up backed by Peter Thiel crashed and burned in armed forces trials
Berlin-based Stark failed to hit a single target in four attempts at two exercises with the British and German forces
www.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Man who backed WeWork says don't worry about AI bubble.

Man who renamed company after Metaverse said don't worry about AI bubble.

The headlines write themselves. Unless you're a business journalist 🤦‍♂️
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM