Jack Clark (AI policy expert)

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Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and serves as its head of policy. [1] He is also engaged in global AI policy, serving as an expert for the Global Partnership on AI and on an AI committee of the OECD. [2]

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Career

Clark was born in Brighton, England. [3]

Before joining OpenAI, Clark was a technology journalist, writing about topics including distributed systems, quantum computing, and AI for news outlets like The Register and Bloomberg News. [4] [5]

Clark worked at OpenAI from 2016 to 2020, doing strategy and communications and becoming policy director. He then co-founded and joined Anthropic. [5]

Clark maintains a newsletter called "Import AI", which covers AI-related news, analyses, and includes short stories. [5] [6] Clark is co-chair of Stanford's AI Index (an organization that publishes yearly reports on the state of AI progress), and of the OECD's working group for classifying and defining AI systems. [7]

In 2023, Clark gave a briefing at the first United Nations Security Council meeting on AI’s threats to global peace, where he argued for "developing ways to test for capabilities, misuses and potential safety flaws" of AI systems, and encouraged global action. [8] In 2024, he pushed back against claims that AI progress was slowing, and warned that most people are not prepared for its pace. [9]

In 2025, Clark wrote in his newsletter Import AI an essay named "Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear". [10] [11] Clark wrote about advanced AI, "make no mistake: what we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine." [12] [13] The pro-regulation stance of Clark and Anthropic were criticized by David Sacks (Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar) who warned that AI regulation would reduce the United States' ability to compete with China. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Chatterjee, Mohar (2025-03-07). "5 Questions for Jack Clark". Politico. Retrieved 2025-06-28.
  2. ↑ Clark, Jack. "biography". Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  3. ↑ Cowen, Tyler (7 July 2018). "Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact (Ep. 242)". Conversations with Tyler. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Bastian, Matthias (2025-10-13). "Anthropic's Jack Clark compares AI breakthroughs to hammers that suddenly become self-aware". The Decoder. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
  5. 1 2 3 Barr, Alistair (14 January 2025). "An Employee Told Me He Was Quitting to Join OpenAI in 2016. I Said It Was a Bad Idea. Now He's an AI Billionaire". Entrepreneur.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2025. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  6. 1 2 Higgins, Tim (2025-10-18). "The Fight Over Whose AI Monster Is Scariest". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
  7. ↑ "Jack Clark". CNAS. Archived from the original on 2025-07-18. Retrieved 2025-06-28.
  8. ↑ "Exec tells first UN council meeting that big tech can't be trusted to guarantee AI safety". AP News. 2023-07-18. Retrieved 2025-06-28.
  9. ↑ Bastian, Matthias (2024-12-25). "AI progress in 2025 will be "even more dramatic," says Anthropic co-founder". The Decoder. Archived from the original on 2025-07-25. Retrieved 2025-06-28.
  10. ↑ Sigalos, MacKenzie (2025-10-19). "As Anthropic tries to keep pace with OpenAI, it's also taking on the U.S. government". CNBC. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
  11. ↑ Clark, Jack (2025-10-13). "Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear". Import AI. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
  12. ↑ Gupta, Aman (2025-10-19). "Anthropic co-founder admits he's 'deeply afraid' of AI, calls it a 'mysterious creature'". mint. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
  13. ↑ "Tensions brewing between Anthropic and Trump's White House". Quartz. 2025-10-16. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
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