Magnús Smári Smárason
I design systems, build them and run them.
Systems architecture · full stack · devops · research
Systems architecture, software from front end to back end, operations and infrastructure. I also build my own tooling and harnesses around the work, and research how people and institutions actually adopt the technology. The work is below; what is in production says so.
The master’s thesis Beyond Fragmentation (2026) is publicly deposited. Co-author of The Irreducible Human, forthcoming from De Gruyter Brill. Course Tutor at the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Summit 2025; expert panel, Rannís Technology Development Fund; advisory board, Kveikja. Former chairman of the Icelandic association of firefighters and paramedics.
NowHome, working on the book, the educational material, Borg, and my golf swing. Get in touch
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.
In July I reported that the man was building a trailer. For a musical. Of his master's thesis. I described it then as a monument to sober academic labour that had been set to an or…
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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.