Jack Clark is a co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic and the writer of the Import AI newsletter. Recent coverage centers on his remarks at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, where he said the singularity has begun, citing Humanity's Last Exam scores rising from 8% to 67.7% and FrontierMath from 2% to 94%, and called for "common sense" AI standards. He also moved his forecast for self-improving AI to 2027 from 2028 after a new benchmark.
Anthropic files IPO prospectusAfter weeks of speculation, Anthropic filed a 335-page IPO prospectus, about 100 pages of which cover risks. The piece argues the company crafts a narrative of powerful, dangerous technology only it can tame, with cofounder Jack Clark telling an IMF audience the singularity has begun.
Anthropic officially files for IPOAnthropic has filed for an IPO under the ticker 'ANT'. H1 2026 revenue was $1.63B with an operating loss of $693M and a net loss of $80.7B. A Founder LLC of seven co-founders will control 50.1% of voting power to preserve the AI safety mission.
Anthropic's Jack Clark Moves Self-Improving AI Forecast to 2027A new benchmark from P-Zero Research measures how well AI models design and evaluate experiments on their own, and results are improving quickly. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has therefore moved his forecast for self-improving AI forward to 2027.
Anthropic's Jack Clark tells policymakers the singularity has begunAt the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said the singularity has begun, arguing AI now accelerates discovery faster than humans can follow. He cited Humanity's Last Exam scores rising from 8% to 67.7% and FrontierMath from 2% to 94%, and urged countries to build labs, robots and research equipment.
Between this and our prior commitments, roughly 20% of all Anthropic equity will be dedicated to the public good, and that commitment can grow as Anthropic grows. We plan to use these funds to ensure more people can share in the benefits of AI, and to increas…
I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here:
Anthropic co-founder backs 'common sense' AI rulesAnthropic co-founder and Head of Policy Jack Clark said at an IMF-World Bank annual meetings panel in Bangkok that AI-producing countries need 'common sense standards' to regulate the technology, which would build confidence and help advance the global economy.
Anthropic's Jack Clark moves AI self-improvement forecast to 2027Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark moved his forecast for recursive AI self-improvement to 2027 from 2028, citing the new TasteVal benchmark. It showed Anthropic's Opus 5.5 leading on experimental compute efficiency at about $282 per run versus $9,123 for human experts. Clark had put 30% odds on 2027 in May.
Special Import AI announcement: In Monday's issue, there will be a video from a recent event I did with Robin Sloan where we talked about AI, fiction, and the future. Robin said we can read the Hugging Face hack as being like a play - a fascinating perspectiv…
I am so grateful to the inquisitive Import AI community - it brings me a lot of joy to highlight research in the newsletter and for it to generate meaningful interest [Quoting @vinayprabhu]: Looks like the surface area of the @jackclarkSF DM-saga is crazy and…
Last year, we used Claude to interview 81,000 people about their hopes & worries about AI. This year, we're doing the same, but hoping to (with interviewee consent) make the transcripts public! Take part here and help build a vast social science dataset:…
Experts: AI slowdown calls worth heeding; Church shaping debateCatholic AI experts say warnings from leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier firms to slow AI development are reasonable and overdue. About 1,400 frontier AI employees have signed a statement urging the US government to back an international effort to deliberately pace frontier automated AI development, while the Church is engaging in AI ethics discussions.
saying weird stuff about AI and the singularity The Anthropic Institute 🤝 the DeepMind Institute [Quoting @ShaneLegg]: My journey to develop AGI spans 25 yrs, including 10+ yrs thinking about technical & societal perspectives at Google DeepMind. AGI is o…
UK minister: heed AI experts' warningsAt the TUC Congress Louise Haigh said the UK government must balance exploiting AI benefits with heeding industry warnings about public safety and national security. The remarks follow Anthropic researchers' warning that AI could threaten humanity within a decade and calls for international regulatory cooperation.
Anthropic co-founder: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatoryAnthropic co-founder Jack Clark says society should consider mandating an AI 'kill switch' verifiable by third parties; his remarks add to broader policy debates about AI safety and slowing development.
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence reportAn arXiv-updated report by Miles Brundage and coauthors surveys threats from malicious uses of AI across digital, physical, and political domains, and recommends forecasting, prevention, and mitigation measures.
Proud of this statement from Dario on pacing - as anyone close to the technology knows, AI seems to be on a trajectory to progress far faster than the rate at which society can adapt to its capabilities and risks. AI is an amazingly positive technology - and…
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