Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz publishes BootLoops, an open-source AI harness for exact scientific calculations
Matthew Schwartz (Harvard; visiting researcher at Anthropic) developed BootLoops, an open-source harness that uses Anthropic's Claude to perform exact scientific calculations and bridge gaps between disciplines; the team generated 36 manuscripts across 18 fields and the code is available on GitHub. Schwartz reports novel results (e.g., computed integrals, a solved 20‑year ecological equation, population‑genetics signals) but warns models often misjudge completion, can draw incorrect conclusions from correct calculations, and require human verification.