Ben Murphy @benjaminmmurphy
2L @Harvard_Law, previously Summer Fellow @GovAI_, eng. at @InflectionAI, @SubstackInc, SRE @Google, @BrownUniversity. benjaminmurphy.me Somerville, MA Joined February 2010-
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user: my wife left me chatgpt: i’m sorry to hear that. for many people experiencing this, one thing that’s surprisingly helpful is the cool, refreshing taste of coca-cola classic user: is this a paid ad chatgpt: see it as an example of hustle. you’ll need that for the alimony
Imo the fault of the last decades is that we've become very non moral panicky about our digital lives, allowing our brains to be fried in the process & very moral panicky about anything physical, stifling medical progress, normal childhood experiences & becoming general wimps.
Imo the fault of the last decades is that we've become very non moral panicky about our digital lives, allowing our brains to be fried in the process & very moral panicky about anything physical, stifling medical progress, normal childhood experiences & becoming general wimps.
Just complete neolib victory. We imprison and torture and drone these guys for two decades and they still come to something called "Concordia Summit" in NYC to learn about deregulating banks
Just complete neolib victory. We imprison and torture and drone these guys for two decades and they still come to something called "Concordia Summit" in NYC to learn about deregulating banks
to me, the return to a pre-literate world seems dramatically more important than almost any other consequence of technological progress and an order of magnitude harder to stop. even if you buy the most alarming version of x-risk fears, there is an alignment problem we can…
to me, the return to a pre-literate world seems dramatically more important than almost any other consequence of technological progress and an order of magnitude harder to stop. even if you buy the most alarming version of x-risk fears, there is an alignment problem we can…
one of the seeming weaknesses of the "AI assistant" genre is requiring everyone to use the same SaaS: Slack, Gmail, Zoom, etc. the obvious reason is that the universal protocols don't support MCP-like operations (e.g. IMAP doesn't support the type of filtering agents…
Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the governor of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate and former president of the United States and now…
In 2019, on Trump’s orders, a @USNavy SEAL Team snuck into North Korea to try to plant a device to monitor Kim Jong-un’s communications. A wild story about how the mission went wrong, leaving unarmed North Koreans dead, but no listening device in place. nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/…
I’ve been saying this
I wrote about the tragic death of Adam Raine and the venal negligence of "AI Safety." argmin.net/p/the-banal-ev…
it should probably be a bigger story that most of the world has stopped shipping packages to the U.S. entirely because of Trump’s tariffs
So proud of my friend @danwwang on his book release this week. Reading it reminded me of going on long walks with him in China, having a sage voice beside me to guide me through his firsthand experience of living in the grand mystery that is modern China.
Today I cover the long-term implications of what I believe is the first landmark tort lawsuit against a frontier AI developer: Raine v. OpenAI, Inc. This is a big one. To the extent there are law textbooks fifty years hence, this one is likely to be there.
This is really exciting and impressive, and this stuff is in my area of mathematics research (convex optimization). I have a nuanced take. 🧵 (1/9)
This is really exciting and impressive, and this stuff is in my area of mathematics research (convex optimization). I have a nuanced take. 🧵 (1/9)
i will not pull it, sam-i-am. i will not choose who dies by tram
Microsoft isn’t disclosing this so: M365 Copilot allowed users to access files without producing an audit log. All you had to do was ask Copilot to not link to the file. You don’t even have to ask; it sometimes just happens. If your org uses Copilot your audit log is likely wrong
Microsoft isn’t disclosing this so: M365 Copilot allowed users to access files without producing an audit log. All you had to do was ask Copilot to not link to the file. You don’t even have to ask; it sometimes just happens. If your org uses Copilot your audit log is likely wrong
No LLM has ever produced anything better than this. Golden Gate Claude was the only real AI art ever created.
No LLM has ever produced anything better than this. Golden Gate Claude was the only real AI art ever created.
The best historical analogy for AI takeover is the Mamluk Sultanate. Mamluks were an artificially created corps of slave-soldiers who accumulated power and overthrew their masters. AI doomers just repackage the principal-agent problem in existential urgency. (essay link below)
> Joins the US government > Releases the best AI policy plan known to man > Refuses to elaborate > Leaves
> Joins the US government > Releases the best AI policy plan known to man > Refuses to elaborate > Leaves
NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵
showing this on a marketing stream should be criminal, good lord
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