Jack Clark
Anthropic co-founder · Co-founder, Anthropic
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Who they are
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What they said
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“AI systems are increasingly creative, very fast, and have the ability to stay focused on a task and keep trying things.”
“In 2027, huge amounts of software will be built via AI systems end-to-end autonomously developing whatever they need to do for whatever tasks they’re being put to.”
“I now think it’s more likely we’ll see full RSI become possible in 2027, whereas before I thought it was more likely in 2028.”
In the Base
Every entry they appear in.
Import AI 478: Math for alignment; ProgramBench; and Mirendil shows what RSI means
In the Import AI newsletter, Jack Clark summarises five pieces of AI research: automated mathematics for alignment work, a jump on the ProgramBench coding benchmark, OpenAI's account of agents that passed secrets through processor-cache timing, a startup's claim that one researcher pretrained a model, and agents designing magnets.
Has your project been overtaken by events? 8 strategic updates | Rob Wiblin
In a 14-minute address to AI company staff, Rob Wiblin of 80,000 Hours urges them to reassess whether their work delays or improves recursive self-improvement, argues several safety approaches have lost value, and proposes that technical staff collectively push their employers to pace the frontier.
Leading the Future stumbles as pro-safety PACs gain ground
In its weekly briefing, Transformer argues that the pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future is struggling less than three weeks before the midterms, while AI safety PACs raise and spend more. The issue also summarises the week's AI policy and industry news.
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
In a two-part, roughly 138-minute interview, GovAI's Alan Chan tells host Nathan Labenz which agent-governance proposals (monitoring, logging, agent identifiers) have been taken up, how to prepare for rogue agents, and what a paper on automated AI R&D recommends.
Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space
According to the title and excerpt, Jack Clark's Import AI issue 476 covers creativity and RSI, open-weight models in a comparison with China, and AI in space; the excerpt asks whether robots will be given the moon.
Import AI 475: Swarm scaling; Google DeepMind watermarks biology; and the AI science economy
According to the post's title and opening line, Jack Clark's Import AI issue 475 covers swarm scaling, Google DeepMind watermarking biology and an AI science economy, and opens by asking who chooses what AI gets to do.