Jack Clark quotes on AI, with sources
Co-founder, Anthropic · 9 quotes · latest Aug 31, 2026
- My worry is that AI systems are both better at coordinating than humans and also much, much faster moving than us.
- 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.
- 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.
- That class of technology has never existed before, and yet I believe this could happen within the next two years, and possibly sooner.
- 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.
- 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.
- When I look at the graph, I feel a sense of vertigo, because I know a little bit about what underlies this graph.
- 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.
- 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.