I am a theoretical physicist with broad interests in effective field theory, particle physics, cosmology, scattering amplitudes, and the conformal field theory (CFT) bootstrap. My present research uses CFT to learn about quantum gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence. Why is this exciting? For an accessible introduction, you can watch my public lecture.
In the last few years I have also been collaborating with both physicists and computer scientists on Machine Learning research, including on scaling laws for neural models and the GPT-3 language model. My motivation is to understand these systems and to help make them safe and beneficial.
My work has been supported by a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an NSF CAREER grant, and through the Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap.
Currently I’m on a leave of absence from JHU through the ’24/’25 academic year — I am a co-founder of Anthropic.
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3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: jareddk at gmail