Jack Clark
AnthropicAnthropicAnthropic is an artificial intelligence research and product company founded in 2021 that develops the Claude models, assistant, and tools such as Claude Code, and operates as a public benefit corporation. Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei are its co-founders, and its research covers model safety, interpretability, and steerability.Open the full entry co-founder and Head of Public Benefit.
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Key facts
Journalism
Before entering the AI industry, Clark reported on distributed systems at The Register and neural networks at Bloomberg. He later served as OpenAI’s Policy Director and worked with CSET.[1]
2016–2021From OpenAI to Anthropic
His public résumé lists joining OpenAI in 2016, becoming Policy Director in 2018, leaving in late 2020, and co-founding Anthropic in 2021. His Import AI newsletter began in August 2016.[2]
2017–2024AI Index
Clark’s personal biography dates his role as a founding member of Stanford University’s AI Index to 2017–2024.[3]
June 26, 2019Congressional Testimony
Clark testified before the U.S. House Science Committee on AI’s societal and ethical implications. He framed AI as a social system reflecting its builders’ biases and discussed joint government, industry, and academic responses to deployment risks.[4]
December 2021Measuring AI Development
With Kyle Miller and Rebecca Gelles, he co-authored a study combining bibliometrics and technical analysis of re-identification, speaker recognition, and image synthesis. It proposes continuous research and performance monitoring as a prototype methodology, explicitly not a forecast.[5]
March 11, 2026The Anthropic Institute
Anthropic announced that Clark would lead its new institute as Head of Public Benefit. It combines frontier red-teaming, societal-impact, and economic research, studying capability limits, real-world use, and employment while expanding work on forecasting and law.[6]
October 17, 2026IMF Meeting Lecture
In his Per Jacobsson lecture at the IMF meeting in Bangkok, Clark argued that AI could accelerate scientific progress while emphasizing infrastructure, human oversight, and restraint in development.[7]
Writing and Interests
He continues to write Import AI, including science-fiction stories alongside research commentary. His stated interests also include hiking and talking to language models.[3]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Personal website: Personal links: https://jack-clark.net/ (opens in a new window)[3]
Anthropic: Official link: https://www.anthropic.com/ (opens in a new window)[6]
OpenAI: Official link: https://openai.com/ (opens in a new window)[1]
CSET: Official link: https://cset.georgetown.edu/ (opens in a new window)[1]
X: Public account: https://x.com/jackclarkSF (opens in a new window)[8]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-clark-5a320317/ (opens in a new window)[2]
Sources
- Jack Clark (opens in a new window)
- Jack Clark | LinkedIn (opens in a new window)
- About | Import AI (opens in a new window)
- Testimony Before House Science Committee (opens in a new window)
- Measuring AI Development (opens in a new window)
- Introducing The Anthropic Institute (opens in a new window)
- Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun (opens in a new window)
- Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF) / X (opens in a new window)