Ben Murphy @benjaminmmurphy
Current Summer Fellow @GovAI_, generally JD Candidate at Harvard Law, previously eng. at @InflectionAI, @SubstackInc, SRE @Google, @BrownUniversity. benjaminmurphy.me Somerville, MA Joined February 2010-
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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
Pretty incredible that using these magical numbers the rocks in your computer can talk to you
Pretty incredible that using these magical numbers the rocks in your computer can talk to you
my basic view is that the future will look much more like the past than the present. we are at the end of a great historical abnormality: this level of cultural stability and homogeneity, and relative secularism is over. we’re going back to the basics of violence and divine faith
so funny that they copied the zero-CSS styling that's come into fashion (e.g. Mechanize, or even sama's personal blog which is light-styling) in contrast with Meta's usual super-polished corporate PR blog
so funny that they copied the zero-CSS styling that's come into fashion (e.g. Mechanize, or even sama's personal blog which is light-styling) in contrast with Meta's usual super-polished corporate PR blog
some things that immediately stand out: - new export controls on the supply chain for semiconductors, not just the finished product - DARPA doing interpretability work(!) - new categorical exemptions to NEPA for datacenter construction + federal lands for DCs (like Anthropic…
some things that immediately stand out: - new export controls on the supply chain for semiconductors, not just the finished product - DARPA doing interpretability work(!) - new categorical exemptions to NEPA for datacenter construction + federal lands for DCs (like Anthropic…
this is crazy, but one thing that didn't make it into the first post (it's further down the thread) is that this only works if it's the same base model—which both makes sense but also confirms that models aren't (yet, at least) learning the same latent representations of evil
this is crazy, but one thing that didn't make it into the first post (it's further down the thread) is that this only works if it's the same base model—which both makes sense but also confirms that models aren't (yet, at least) learning the same latent representations of evil
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