Benjamin Murphy

Benjamin Murphy

👋 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.

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I'm currently thinking about a few big questions:

If you have thoughts on any of these topics, I'd love to chat—drop me an email at the above link.

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July 2025
Joined the Harvard Law Review as an editor for Volume 140.
June 2025
Became a Summer Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI in London.
September 2024
Started at Harvard Law.
July 2024
Drove across the country from Oakland, CA, via Seattle and Glacier National Park, to Somerville, MA.
March 2024
Ran the Oakland Marathon.
February 2023
Left Substack to begin work at Inflection AI.
August 2021
Left Google, started on the systems team at Substack.
July 2019
Started as a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, working on the infrastructure underlying Google's first-party applications.
May 2019
Graduated from Brown with concurrent bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science.