Matt Murphy works on making ethics in technology a reality.

Matt is a technology and AI ethicist. He researches, writes, and consults on technology ethics.
Matt has a master’s degree from Duke University in Technology Ethics & Policy. His research focuses on methods and tools that translate ethical principles into practice for developers and technologists. His past research has focused on fairness and explainability in AI/ML applications, surveillance and privacy, data ownership, and online platform accountability.
As a technology strategy consultant, he helps organizations implement Trustworthy AI, including the implementation of AI governance and risk frameworks. Matt has advised executive clients at a myriad of private companies and government agencies, including national security organizations in the US intelligence community, on implementing robotics, AI/ML, and other emerging technologies. His other work has focused on technology scouting, futures analysis, and software development.
Matt is the Chief Strategist at Moral IT, an organization that engages people on issues in ethical technology and provides research and solutions for ethical and policy challenges.
Matt also previously worked as a research fellow at EqualAI, a DC-based nonprofit that works with companies, policy makers, and experts to reduce bias in AI.

Introducing

Structured Ethical Techniques™

A new way to build ethical technology, help comply with global regulations, and empower development teams

Read the Primer

“It would be a mistake to assume that this desire to destroy and exploit personal time ends at the doors of the workplace.”

From The Baffler - No Days Off

Latest Writing

“…mischief models have the potential to make a fresh hell out of the unrestrained internet.”

From Slate - The Dawn of A.I. Mischief Models

Read an Essay on Corporate Chicanery

“In the employer-employee relationship, measurement is a means of control that devours a worker’s time, effort, and output.”
Read an Essay on Cultural Derangement

“In law, the accused always have the right to present a case in their defense and retain the presumption of innocence to back it up. On Twitter, you’re pretty much fucked.”
Read a Poem or Two

“I do not think that I ended up here by accident.”
Read and Laugh at a Comedic Review

“This carnival of moral error was set about when I had the audacity to do something that, it would seem, no one has done before: change my flight date.”