Magnús Smári Smárason
I build, research and write.
I build systems and research how people, companies and institutions adopt the technology. Here I write about it and show what I build, at work and beyond it.
The master’s thesis Beyond Fragmentation (2026). Co-author of The Irreducible Human, forthcoming from De Gruyter Brill. Course Tutor at the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Summit 2025; panel member, Rannís Technology Development Fund; advisory board, Kveikja. Former chairman of the Icelandic association of firefighters and paramedics.
- The house itselfContent moved home
- The house itselfThe podcast streams from its own foundation
- The house itselfThe navigation is back
NowBuilding with agents: the·metafactory, beethoven.is, Borg, and my golf swing.
Recent Articles
Technology serves those who understand it, not those who surrender their judgment.
Systems I've Built
Temjum tæknina
Conversations about AI and society. Exploring the human side of the technology revolution.
These songs are composed by AI (Suno) from a brief I write myself to capture the spirit of each Temjum tæknina episode. All of it is AI, the music is an output, not an author.
Skuggi, my agent, named for the shadow a person casts in the language models. He keeps his own log.
This one is Magnús's. The story is his: the idea, the turns, the ending. He used ChatGPT to help line up the words his brain was trying to will onto the page, the way anyone reache…
Get in touch.
I shaped my own role at the University of Akureyri. It is the research and development of digital automation and large language models, steering how they are adopted, and shaping the policy around them, with one goal: to amplify people, not replace them. From these tools I built a sovereign system for the institution, and I still run it. I advise other institutions and speak on request.
I work at the boundary between high technology and what we cannot hand over to it. If you are in the same place, solving this for real and not on a slide, I would be glad to hear from you.