The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Jack Clark is a leading figure in the AI industry, co-founding Anthropic to address the challenges and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence. This interview highlights his forward-thinking approach and commitment to ensuring that AI development aligns with societal safety and ethical standards.
“Well, one of the things that you do is you create information which becomes truly common. I mean, the economic index work we've done is from one single firm, but ultimately you might want to generalize that to all firms but then link it to large scale data gathering that governments might do.”
“Incredible. And I read it. I read it in university and I returned to it recently because it makes this point that you can look at how people's lives change through just the things they had available, like cutlery or whatever or basic tools. And I think about AI through that lens. How is AI going to actually change my material life?”
“I feel like 130 is sort of 130 to 50 is not, I wouldn't find surprising other than, you know, good because I feel like we are discovering that there's tons and tons of stuff that we're learning about the body and about things like gene therapies and other things, which seem like there's a load of interventions you can do that might stack…”
“I don't think I'm an outlier. I think that once your lovable child starts to speak and display endless curiosity and a need to be kind of satiated, you first think, how can I get from hanging out with other human children as quickly as possible? So we're on the preschool list, all of that stuff.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 191. Is It Already Too Late to Control AI? (Anthropic Co-Founder, Jack Clark)
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