👋 I'm Ben.
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.
I'm typically in Cambridge, MA, where I'm a student at Harvard Law School. I am, among other things, an editor of the Harvard Law Review, a Submissions Managing Editor for the Journal of Law and Technology, and a Teaching Fellow for Civil Procedure.
Previously, I was a full-stack engineer. I was a Member of Technical Staff at Inflection AI, where I was the first engineer on the safety team, and additionally worked on product and ML infrastructure. I have also worked at Substack (growth, systems, strategy), and was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google. I still try to keep my engineering skills sharp by working on a variety of contracting jobs and side projects; if you're working on something interesting that would benefit from my multidisciplinary expertise, give me a shout.
I am a serial collector of hobbies, few of which I have enough time for, but all of which I refuse to drop. My list includes ultimate frisbee, rock climbing, cooking, photography, birding, World of Warcraft, board games, and watching football. I, along with my partner, am also the proud parent of a small poodle who regularly reminds both of us to stop working on the computer and go outside.
I'm currently thinking about a few big questions:
- First, what are the major areas of existing constitutional and administrative law that pose threats to an abundance agenda?
- Second, what comprises "taste" and can it be effectively taught?
- Third, what is the proper role and structure of education in the modern world?
If you have thoughts on any of these topics, I'd love to chat—drop me an email at the above link.