Physics of Intelligence for Superalignment

From supersonic flight to superconductivity, physics has taught us to reason where intuition fails. Physics of Intelligence makes the unimaginable intelligible as superintelligence arrives.

Research People

CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University

Physics of AI Lab, NTT Research, Inc.

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

Latest research blogs

All research

Research program

Explore the research

Neural Mechanics of Learning

What laws govern how neural networks learn?

Persona Mechanics

What structures underlie model behavior, and how can we steer it?

Mechanistic Swarm Interpretability

How do individual agents and their interactions shape collective beliefs and behavior?

News

All news

February 2026

Joining CBAI as a mentor

Hidenori Tanaka joined the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative Summer Research Fellowship in AI Safety as a mentor.

October 2025

Harvard's Dr. Mai Uchida joins the Physics of AI Group

NTT Research announced that Dr. Mai Uchida will collaborate with the Physics of AI Group on psychiatry, mental health, and safe human-AI systems.

April 2025

Five group works accepted at ICLR 2025

Including studies on competition dynamics in in-context learning, percolation models of emergence, and concept learning dynamics.

November 2024

Joining MATS as a mentor

Hidenori Tanaka joined the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) program as a mentor.