Jack Clark

Career

1. 
   Anthropic

   • Co-founder and Head of Public BenefitCurrent
   • Co-founder and Head of PolicyJan 2021
2. 
   OpenAI

   • Policy DirectorOct 2018 – Dec 2020
   • Strategy & CommunicationsOct 2016 – Oct 2018
3. 
   Bloomberg LP

   • Google/AI/AWS ReporterOct 2015 – Aug 2016
   • Enterprise Tech ReporterAug 2014 – Oct 2015
4. 
   The Register

   • ReporterFeb 2013 – Jul 2014
5. C
   CBS Interactive (UK)

   • Reporter, ZDNet UKJul 2010 – Jan 2013
6. A
   Adfero

   • Researcher and ReporterAug 2009 – Jun 2010

Education

• BA, English Literature with Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, 2006-2009

Lesser-known facts

• Studied English literature with creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
• Reported on enterprise tech and AI for ZDNet UK, The Register and Bloomberg.
• Writes short science fiction stories inside Import AI.
• Founding member of Stanford's AI Index and an inaugural member of the U.S. National AI Advisory Committee.
• Briefed the UN Security Council on AI threats to global peace in 2023.
• Told a House committee in June 2025 that powerful AI could be buildable by late 2026 or early 2027.
• Became a U.S. citizen, saying he believes in America's founding values of democracy and free expression.
• Calls himself a "technological pessimist who became an optimist through repeated beatings over the head of scale."
• Wrote in Import AI 476 that full recursive self-improvement now looks more likely in 2027 than in 2028.
• Told NPR in 2026: "We've seen warning shots, and that gives us a window in which we can act."

Research papers before Anthropic

• GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners2020 · author 26 of 31

Known for

• Import AI (newsletter, started Aug 2016)

Honors

Founding member of the AI Index at Stanford University (2017-2024) · Inaugural member of the USA's National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) (2021-2024)

Interviews and talks

• NPR Morning Edition interview on AI risks and potential solutions (2026)npr.org