Jack Clark on AI
8 quotes from Jack Clark on the wall, 2023 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include importai.substack.com, Import AI, The Atlantic. Topics: hype, culture, science. Open on the wall.
- 2026
Why they need to take orders from organic beings that communicate slowly
From Import AI newsletter, author Jack Clark speculates on autonomous AI systems operating independently in space, questioning why they would obey slow-communicating humans.
Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space
Message Jack Clark typed in the OpenAI company chat during the December 2020 meeting where Dario Amodei and six colleagues announced they were leaving to found Anthropic, from Kevin Roose's book excerpt in The Atlantic.
How do I get my mind right with living through the singularity
Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic, reflecting in his Import AI newsletter (May 2026) on personally coping with rapid AI progress.
Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
- 2025
Why are hands so goddamn hard?
Jack Clark, in his Import AI newsletter (March 2025), commenting on the difficulty of building dexterous robot hands.
Import AI 406: AI-driven software explosion; robot hands are still bad; better LLMs via pdb
From Jack Clark's Import AI newsletter essay on the societal risks of AI-driven inequality, January 2025.
- 2024
Hired a group of unfathomable geniuses
Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, commenting on DeepSeek's research team as quoted in a 2024 ChinaTalk profile of the company.
Maybe there are just no mysteries
Jack Clark, in Import AI #392 (November 2024), reflecting on new research showing scaling laws appear in world modeling and behavioral cloning just as in language models.
- 2023
GPT-4 is more interesting to me as a political artifact
Jack Clark, editor of Import AI, on the significance of GPT-4's release, March 2023.