Jack Clark, Co-Founder and Head of Policy, Anthropic
Jack Clark is the co-founder of Anthropic, policy director of the AI Index, an expert member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, co-chair of the OECD's working group on classifying and defining AI systems, and a non-resident research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). In his spare time, Jack writes Import AI, a newsletter about AI and AI policy read by more than 25,000 people around the world. Jack was formerly the policy director of OpenAI, an AI research company.
In addition to co-founding Anthropic, Jack Clark is a non-resident research fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), co-chair of the AI Index, an expert member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, and co-chair of the OECD’s working group on AI and compute. Jack publishes the AI and policy newsletter Import AI, which is read by over 25,000 people worldwide, in his free time. Jack used to work at the AI research startup OpenAI as the director of policies.
2023
Texas-based Anthrop LLC filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in February 2023 alleging that Anthropic used its registered trademark “Anthropic A.I.” The business was dubbed the “Center of A.I. Doomerism” by Kevin Roose of The New York Times. According to him, a few workers “compared themselves to modern-day Robert Oppenheimers”.
Journalists frequently associate Anthropic with the effective altruism movement since several of the team members and founders were involved in or attracted to the community. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was among the investors in the Series B round before it folded in 2022.
Amazon announced a collaboration on September 25, 2023, with an initial investment of $1.25 billion and the possibility of Amazon spending up to $4 billion to become a minority shareholder. Anthropic agreed to utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its main cloud provider and to make its AI models available to AWS users as part of the agreement. Google put $500 million into Anthropic the next month and pledged to contribute an additional $1.5 billion over time.
Latest news about Jack Clark
OpenAI’s board has proposed a merger with rival Anthropic, a key AI competitor, following the firing of former CEO Sam Altman. However, Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, declined both the merger proposal and the CEO position due to his commitment to Anthropic, which is seen as FTX’s most valuable asset. The proposal highlights intense competition and strategic maneuvers within the AI industry, with both companies vying for technological advancements and market influence in a rapidly evolving field.
Me reading every neural architecture search paper published ever: IF THIS IS SO GOOD WHY AREN'T YOU USING IT IN PRODUCTION? (yes, this is a cheerful subtweet of an arXiv paper. Will be writing up for next issue of Import AI.)
Many important aspects of the political economy of technology systems stem from the affordances of the technical system (what you can and can't do with it), and most of the technical affordances get published on arXiv, hundreds of times a day.
