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Jack Clark

Cofounder, Anthropic

Search every verified Jack Clark interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, made several public appearances in late 2026 to discuss the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and the need for regulation. Speaking at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok in October, Clark delivered the Per Jacobsson Lecture, where he argued that "the singularity has already begun," citing evidence such as AI systems' performance on advanced tests like "Humanity's Last Exam." He also discussed an internal company model projecting US GDP could reach $44 trillion by 2030 under certain AI adoption scenarios, and called for international cooperation on establishing "unusual and serious rules" for AI governance. During these appearances, economist V. Anantha Nageswaran, India's chief economic adviser, responded that no one pays a lab to hit the brakes and compared the industry's structure to banking before 2008. Clark also conducted media interviews in Tokyo in mid-October and with the BBC in September. He stated that AI is "less regulated than toys I buy for my children" and argued for the creation of safety testing frameworks similar to those used for automobiles, airplanes, and food. He described the AI industry as a "car without brakes" and said it risks becoming a "major risk to society," while expressing that the window to act on regulation is "a small number of years." In response to concerns about slowing AI progress to compete with China, Clark has argued that the US could lose its lead through a major accident leading to overregulation, drawing a comparison to the US nuclear power industry's decline relative to China's. He has also noted labor market shifts due to AI, including softness in early graduate hiring and increased demand for experienced managers to oversee virtual workers.

Recent appearances

  • AI Will Change Jobs Forever | IMF & Anthropic

    October 22, 2026 · 📺 Perfology Clips

    Will artificial intelligence create more jobs than it destroys—or are we heading toward a major economic disruption? At the 2026 IMF Annual Meetings in Bangkok, global economic leaders and AI experts discuss the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence, including AI-driven productivity, job displacement, agentic AI, and the urgent need for responsible regulation. Featuring IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem, DHL CEO Tobias Meyer, and other leaders, with Richard Quest moderating the discussion. 🚀 What yo…

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  • "The Singularity Has Already Begun" — Anthropic Co-Founder JackClarkTakestheStageattheIMF,andEconomistontheStageRetortsImmediately【AIPeopleSay】

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 AI 101

    原素材（IMF《Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture: Inside the Event Horizon》，81 分 45 秒）：   • Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture: Inside t...   Jack Clark 說，奇點不是將來式，而是已經開始發生。 Anthropic 共同創辦人 Jack Clark 在曼谷的 IMF Per Jacobsson 講座，用考試分數與理論物理題解釋 AI 能力為什麼正在變質。 他談到 AI 堅持專家的標準答案算錯，最後 50 題答對 49 題，也談一個人同時跑出幾千個副本會改變什麼。 印度政府首席經濟顧問 Nageswaran 隨後回應，AI 實驗室沒人因為踩煞車而獲利，這種結構在 2008 年以前就出現過。 主持人 Raghuram Rajan 把問題拉回治理，Clark 則說管 AI 不需要先發明廣義相對論，但政策時間只剩幾年。 章節 00:00 我是一個人類 00:38 奇點已經開始 01:54 AI 抓到專家算錯 04:21 經濟學家當場回嘴 05:16 認知負債與踩煞車 07:20 人類注定完蛋嗎 08:03 管 AI 像發明相對論

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  • CEA Nageswaran, Raghuram Rajan & Anthropic Co-Founder Discuss AI, Jobs Impact & Doomsday Prediction

    October 17, 2026 · 📺 NDTV Profit

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  • FULL SPEECH: Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark Says AI Could Push US GDP to $44 Trillion by 2030 |AF14

    October 17, 2026 · 📺 DWS News

    Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could dramatically transform the US economy, with an internal company model projecting US economic output could reach $44 trillion by 2030. Speaking at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, Clark said the forecast may sound “very outlandish,” but argued that increasingly powerful AI could accelerate scientific discovery, create new industries and drive unprecedented economic expansion. Clark also called for international cooperation and “unusual and serious rules” to manage the transformative impact o…

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  • AI Risks "Hacking Home Appliances": Anthropic Co-Founder Discusses "Threats and the Future" [Supe...

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 ANNnewsCH

    While AI (artificial intelligence) is rapidly evolving, it poses a significant threat, such as the possibility of it hijacking home appliances like televisions and multiplying itself. The head of an American AI development company, currently visiting Japan, spoke about the dangers of AI and its future. ■ AI "Home Appliance Hijacking" Risk On the 14th, it was revealed that over 3 million email addresses may have been leaked. According to Arcadia, an IT company in Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture, unauthorized access by a third party was discovered in a system that provides disaster prevention in…

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  • Anthropic Co-Founder Visits Tokyo for Business Briefing: 1 Year Since Office Opening

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 読売新聞オンライン動画

    Jack Clark, co-founder and head of public interest at Anthropique, the US AI development company known for its AI model "Claude," visited Japan and held a media briefing in Tokyo on the 14th. Clark spoke to the assembled press about the company's business development and his views on the recent cyberattacks that have caused significant damage. Additionally, Hidetoshi Tojo, president of Anthropique Japan, which celebrated its first anniversary of opening its Tokyo office this month, explained the company's initiatives in Japan. (Photo by Shinji Koseki, Tokyo Headquarters Digital Editorial Depar…

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  • AI Is a "Car Without Brakes": An Interview with the Anthropic Co-Founder on the Future of AI | Ne...

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 ANNnewsCH

    We spoke with the co-founder of an AI development company about various issues surrounding AI, including the lack of global safety regulations and ethical considerations in its operation. Are there significant risks to the future shaped by AI? ■ The AI ​​Industry is Like a "Car Without Brakes" From medicine to cutting-edge scientific research, Anthropique, a leading American AI company, is pushing the limits of human knowledge. Anthropique Co-Founder, Jack Clark "We see the next few years as a critical period for safe AI development worldwide." To commemorate the first anniversary of the e…

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  • Anthropic's Jack Clark on AI, power, and the Pentagon

    October 12, 2026 · 📺 top1000funds

    Artificial intelligence is entering a new era, moving beyond systems that simply answer questions to agents capable of carrying out complex tasks and taking actions over extended periods. Jack Clark, co-founder and head of public benefit at Anthropic, said the shift from chat to agents brings enormous opportunities, from greater economic efficiency to accelerating scientific discovery, but also creates a new generation of safety and governance challenges. Clark said AI could dramatically multiply the effectiveness of scientists, describing its potential to accelerate scientific progress as “…

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  • 'The world needs to slow AI down' Anthropic co-founder tells BBC | BBC News

    September 14, 2026 · 📺 BBC News

    AI is getting more powerful "by the day" and a kill switch may be required by firms, one of the co-founders of AI company Anthropic has told the BBC. Jack Clark says AI moves faster than other technology - "getting smarter and more capable every few months", which could become a "major risk to society". During the interview with the BBC's Faisal Islam, Clark responded directly to concerns from BBC viewers - including worries about the impact on future generations. Subscribe to our channel here: https://bbc.in/bbcnews For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com/news #A…

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  • Special Report interview Anthropic Co Founder Jack Clark 9-14-26

    September 14, 2026 · 📺 Braddah Randy Vibal Damron

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  • Is AI Really Taking All the Jobs? Anthropic Co-Founder Reveals the Data

    June 24, 2026 · 📺 The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie and ReasonTV

    Today's guest is Jack Clark, the cofounder of Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind Claude, and the head of its newly launched Anthropic Institute, a forum designed to think through the philosophical, political, and practical challenges that AI poses to society. Nick Gillespie talks with Clark, a former tech journalist at Bloomberg and The Register, about his company's ongoing regulatory battles with the Trump administration; whether Anthropic should have held back Mythos, its super-powerful version, from general release; and what might happen if and when AI becomes fully capa…

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  • Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier | Odd Lots

    June 19, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    There's a lot to unpack with AI right now — everything from its potential impacts on the labor market and society to more extreme ...

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Notable quotes

“I think this is a real choice that lies ahead of us and in the conversation around around pacing the frontier our our CEO Dario said in a public post that we may want to introduce limits on the the ceiling of intelligence that you allow for these systems I think that that is a conversation that is maybe a little at the edge of the Overton window, but is exactly the thing implied by your by your question. My view is t”

“So, so maybe three three things here. One, we we agree that early graduate hiring is a thing where you need support. You need to try novel things. Anthropic has funded an initiative called Claude Corpse where we're trying to create a thousand jobs for early graduate students that we deploy into nonprofits and NGOs's around America. We pay their salaries because the best way to get people onto the career ladder is to ”

“The team of economists we have at Anthropic have done modeling here where we've tried to simulate different versions of the economy according to different trajectories of AI technology. And if you assume, as people at the labs do, that AI models will be able to autonomously complete a broad range of tasks and that their diffusion into the economy will increase in coming years, then under these singularity conditions,”

“Around the world, there are various testing schemes in every field—such as automobiles, airplanes, and food—to ensure that countries can trade safely with one another. I believe we must create similar frameworks for AI.”

“I think about safety as as sitting on a scale from like extremely specific bounded task to uh extremely open-ended like unbounded task. The more you sit over here, the more it's easy to sort of provide strong guarantees around the safety of the system because you have verifiable rewards. You can verify the task was done. You can precisely describe the task and you can monitor any system doing that for basically the f”

“I think I break this down into three categories. One is basic efficiency. Like I think that one of the huge dividends in today's AI systems is in unglamorous but very important like back office automation and efficiency improvements for everyone for almost any range of skills and that's led to and Stripe precinctly shared this a seemingly the beginning of a measurable up token rate new business formation and the form”

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