Skip to content
Quotes.

Jack Clark quote, May 26, 2026

Co-founder, Anthropic · May 26, 2026 · Keynote, Import AI 458 / 2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture, Oxford

That class of technology has never existed before, and yet I believe this could happen within the next two years, and possibly sooner.

Primary source

Words found on the source page on Sep 25, 2026.

More from Jack Clark

Quote
My worry is that AI systems are both better at coordinating than humans and also much, much faster moving than us.Aug 31, 2026· Post
This means that space mining is a perfect business opportunity for superintelligences that come online - perhaps by 2033 we will see AI-run asteroid mining corporations, bidding on contracts that human-supervised companies are not willing to pursue, due to risk or complexity.Aug 31, 2026· Post
It’s time to plan for this, because AI systems are likely to get better a lot faster than people expect, and as they become more advanced we should expect profound changes to happen to people and to society.May 26, 2026· Keynote
This significant increase in the automation of coding has been equivalent to dropping many, many more employees into Anthropic, speeding up our overall pace of development.May 26, 2026· Keynote
We might soon be able to build an AI system that may be smart enough to develop its own successor, thus kicking off a process of recursive self-improvement which would utterly transform the economy and the broader world.May 26, 2026· Keynote
When I look at the graph, I feel a sense of vertigo, because I know a little bit about what underlies this graph.May 26, 2026· Keynote
The surprising thing from my perspective is seeing the feedback across the whole economy, suggesting we might hit an ‘economic singularity’ as a consequence of broad diffusion of automation technologies into the economy.May 11, 2026· Post
This paper points to a future where we get rid of all the software underpinning computers in a traditional sense and just replace it with a gigantic neural network.May 11, 2026· Post

On the same topics

Quote
If you are relying on anything remotely like ‘automated alignment evals’ against potential superintelligences, I predict that you are rather cooked.Zvi MowshowitzSep 14, 2026· Post
Right now, you don’t get explosive growth in capabilities because you still get bottlenecked enough when you’re trying to do research and engineering.John SchulmanSep 11, 2026· Interview
My first concern is that, since roughly this summer, AI has been advancing drastically faster, driven primarily by AI’s growing ability to build the next generation of AI.Dario AmodeiSeptember 2026· Essay
I’m simply pointing out that the way AI systems are currently becoming smarter (by getting trained to be to be really good at specific economically valuable tasks like coding) is not that strongly correlated with power.Dwarkesh PatelMay 16, 2026· Essay
We’re excited to form a long-term partnership with AMD to deploy efficient inference compute and deliver personal superintelligence...Mark ZuckerbergFeb 24, 2026· Earnings
This feedback loop is gathering steam month by month, and may be only 1–2 years away from a point where the current generation of AI autonomously builds the next.Dario AmodeiJanuary 2026· Essay
About this quote
Said by
Jack Clark, Co-founder, Anthropic
Where
Import AI 458 / 2026 Cosmos HAI Lab Lecture, Oxford
Topics
Superintelligence
Company
Anthropic
Source
importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-458-reckoning-with-the

A quote is one moment, not the whole argument. Read it in context at the source.

Sources: the primary source linked on each quote, checked weekly. A quote is one moment; read the source. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

New quotes by email

Fridays, only in weeks with new on-the-record quotes from data and AI leaders.

Double opt-in. Unsubscribe any time.