Connacher Murphy

Connacher Murphy is a research manager at DEL, where he works with lab scholars to turn their research on the economic impacts of AI into low-latency, regularly updated measures of the economic impacts of AI. He also pursues new research partnerships for this work. These efforts are housed under the forthcoming Stanford AI Economics Observatory.

Connacher is interested in the economic and social impacts of AI, both for their relevance to policy and as strong proxies for capabilities.

Prior to DEL, Connacher worked at the Forecasting Research Institute (FRI) on a monthly AI expert forecasting panel, the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP). He previously worked on poverty measurement research at UChicago, using administrative data to develop novel poverty measures. He received an MA in economics from UChicago, and a BA in economics and applied mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.

Outside of the lab, Connacher writes on Substack and works on capabilities evaluation in multiagent settings.