Ben Murphy

I'm currently a Summer Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI in London, where I'm working on legal and cultural research informing how we can effectively adapt society to the coming waves of AI-driven disruption.

When not in London, I am a student at Harvard Law, where I recently finished my first year. My focus lies at the intersection of technical policy and social effects, with a particular eye to pro-abundance reforms that maintain civil liberties, especially within the broader AI space. I am a Submissions Manager for the Journal of Law and Technology, a Teaching Fellow for Civil Procedure, and participate extensively within the Berkman Klein Center. I was previously a Member of Technical Staff at Inflection AI, where I worked on product, ML infrastructure, and AI safety. Before that, I was a full-stack engineer at Substack in San Francisco, a site reliability engineer at Google, and an intern at companies including MongoDB, Facebook, and Two Sigma.

I graduated Brown University with concurrent master's and bachelor's degrees in computer science. I was advised by Paul Valiant and worked on modeling the neural dynamics of the cerebellum. I also studied theoretical computer science and systems extensively and was a teaching assistant for many of my semesters at Brown.

When I'm not studying, I enjoy rock climbing, photography, cooking, running, playing strategy games, watching football, and many other hobbies, few of which I have time for, but all of which I refuse to give up. You can find me around Somerville, or occasionally in New York and San Francisco.

You can contact me at [email protected].