# Jack Clark

Co-founder and Head of Public Benefit, Anthropic. TIME100 AI 2026, Shapers. A former Bloomberg and Register tech reporter who co-founded Anthropic and still writes Import AI, a weekly AI newsletter. ([importai.substack.com](https://importai.substack.com/about))

- Born: Brighton, England ([longtermwiki.com](https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/E1248))
- Education: BA, English literature with creative writing, University of East Anglia, 2009 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-clark-5a320317))
- Career: Anthropic (Co-founder and Head of Public Benefit, 2021 to now); OpenAI (Policy Director, 2016–2020); Bloomberg (Reporter, 2014–2016); The Register (Reporter, 2013–2014); ZDNet UK (Reporter, 2010–2013); Adfero (Researcher and Reporter, 2009–2010) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-clark-5a320317), [anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership), [importai.substack.com](https://importai.substack.com/about))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/jack-clark/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/jack-clark

- Studied English literature and creative writing, then spent years as a tech reporter, calling himself the world's only neural network reporter. ([importai.substack.com](https://importai.substack.com/about))
- Has written the weekly Import AI newsletter since 2016; it reaches about 70,000 readers and includes short science fiction. ([importai.substack.com](https://importai.substack.com/about))
- Founding member of the Stanford AI Index and an inaugural member of the US National AI Advisory Committee. ([importai.substack.com](https://importai.substack.com/about))
- Told Axios there is a 60%+ chance an AI model fully trains its own successor by the end of 2028. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/anthropic-jack-clark-ai-intelligence-explosion))
- Told Congress he is an immigrant who co-founded Anthropic and became a U.S. citizen a few years earlier. ([docs.house.gov](https://docs.house.gov/meetings/ZS/ZS00/20250625/118428/HHRG-119-ZS00-Wstate-ClarkJ-20250625.pdf))
- In March 2026 he handed off Anthropic's policy work to lead The Anthropic Institute, which studies frontier AI's effects on society. ([anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-institute))