Oliver Rochford
@cyberfuturists.com
Cybersecurity Futurist, Neo-generalist, Researcher, Skeptic, X-Gartner Analyst. #Cybersecurity & #Cyberpunk - hi-tech/lo-life, techno-realist
Stop being surprised about modern fantasy and sci-fi having been dumbed down. It is a reflection of the readership.
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Stop being surprised about modern fantasy and sci-fi having been dumbed down. It is a reflection of the readership.
Having just used Gemini for a day: benchmarks lie
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Having just used Gemini for a day: benchmarks lie
💥 OUT NOW! CURIOUS AI 97 💥
This week - we've released AuNoo AI community edition - the only Open Strategic Intelligence Platform.
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
This week - we've released AuNoo AI community edition - the only Open Strategic Intelligence Platform.
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
The Curious AI 97
For pragmatic decision-makers & foresight pros. Techno-realism, second-order effects, and a touch of Stratechery wit.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
💥 OUT NOW! CURIOUS AI 97 💥
This week - we've released AuNoo AI community edition - the only Open Strategic Intelligence Platform.
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
This week - we've released AuNoo AI community edition - the only Open Strategic Intelligence Platform.
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
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I do find it disappointing to learn when a person doesn't read science.
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I do find it disappointing to learn when a person doesn't read science.
Reposted by Oliver Rochford
Anyone that's followed me for any length of time knows how much I love the Netherlands, I really enjoyed working there
Dutch security people are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with (in a bunker) and they're really good at intelligence.
And now I love them even more because this:
Dutch security people are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with (in a bunker) and they're really good at intelligence.
And now I love them even more because this:
BREAKING:
NOS, the largest and most important public news organization in the Netherlands announced that they'll no longer post on X
You can follow them at @nieuws.nos.nl and @nieuwsuur.nl
Well done 👏
More of this please, you'll do better on Bluesky anyway 🤷♀️
NOS, the largest and most important public news organization in the Netherlands announced that they'll no longer post on X
You can follow them at @nieuws.nos.nl and @nieuwsuur.nl
Well done 👏
More of this please, you'll do better on Bluesky anyway 🤷♀️
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Anyone that's followed me for any length of time knows how much I love the Netherlands, I really enjoyed working there
Dutch security people are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with (in a bunker) and they're really good at intelligence.
And now I love them even more because this:
Dutch security people are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with (in a bunker) and they're really good at intelligence.
And now I love them even more because this:
I am slowly coming to the conclusion that the Pacific is not a European concern. We should trade with China: they stop supporting Russia in Ukraine, we turn a blind eye to the South China Sea.
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I am slowly coming to the conclusion that the Pacific is not a European concern. We should trade with China: they stop supporting Russia in Ukraine, we turn a blind eye to the South China Sea.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
💥 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?
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
This week, Tech firms over estimate the demand for AI, and human-shaped robots, are we asking for too much, too early?
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
Curious AI Weekly Digest — Issue 96
For pragmatic decision-makers & foresight pros. Techno-realism, second-order effects, and a touch of Stratechery wit.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
💥 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?
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
This week, Tech firms over estimate the demand for AI, and human-shaped robots, are we asking for too much, too early?
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
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
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.
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...
cyberfuturist.medium.com/the-emergenc...
The Emergence of “Cost-maximizing” Adversarial AI Attacks.
Prediction Restatement
cyberfuturist.medium.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 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...
cyberfuturist.medium.com/the-emergenc...
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These are not serious people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
These are not serious people.
Reposted by Oliver Rochford
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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...
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
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...
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...
💥 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?
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
This week - when AI superstars do Indie, and what if this time it's different, and efficiencies don't unlock wage growth?
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
Curious AI Weekly Digest — Issue 95
November 14, 2025
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 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?
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
This week - when AI superstars do Indie, and what if this time it's different, and efficiencies don't unlock wage growth?
open.substack.com/pub/thecurio...
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.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
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.com/2025/11/12/o...
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 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
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 fall seconds after being unveiled
bbc.com/news/videos/crre8g5e45jo
It's not a "Digital AI worker", it's just a computer program.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It's not a "Digital AI worker", it's just a computer program.
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
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 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
Full on rogue state territory
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Full on rogue state territory