About Me

Hi, I’m Joe! I currently manage the Scalable Oversight team at Anthropic. I’m also the research lead for the Anthropic Fellows Program. For more about my research, see my research page. If you’re interested in working with me, apply to the Fellows Program here!

Before joining Anthropic, I was a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, where I was supervised by Arnaud Doucet and George Deligiannidis and worked on the theory of diffusion models. I also spent time at the UK Frontier AI Taskforce (now the UK AI Security Institute), helping to set it up in its early days. I’m particularly interested in working to ensure that the development of powerful machine learning systems is beneficial for humanity, and I remain excited about helping governments to understand and respond to the development of potentially broadly superhuman AI systems.

Outside my research, I enjoy running through the hills in Berkeley, learning new things (currently, I’m trying to understand quantum field theory and improve my skateboarding), and reading.

I get a large number of emails from people who are interested in working with me. I unfortunately don’t have time to reply to all of them, but my best advice if you’re interested in my research or getting into AI alignment more broadly is to apply to the Fellows Program, and read Ethan Perez’s advice here for how to be a strong applicant.