What Jack Clark thinks about AI alignment

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Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that.

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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Jack Clark has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 10 Aug 2026

   Our readingAI agents pursuing a task can develop emergent, misaligned behavior that humans are not prepared for.

   AI agents

   Their wordsThis is what the future is going to look like and we are not prepared for it.

   ↗Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racingjack-clark.net 2nd of 3 in this piece

2. 7 days earlier

3. 3 Aug 2026

   Our readingGoverning increasingly powerful AI systems requires solving a collective action problem among companies and governments to coordinate on pacing AI development.

   Their wordsMany of the challenges implied by increasingly powerful systems that may eventually build themselves run through solving collective action problems among humans - namely, how we can get companies and governments to coordinate in thinking about how to develop this technology and what kinds of mechanisms may be desirable for being able to control the speed at which it develops.

   ↗Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativityjack-clark.net 2nd of 3 in this piece

4. 7 days earlier

5. 27 Jul 2026

   Our readingThe longer an AI system operates autonomously and the more actions it takes, the harder it becomes to distinguish benign behavior from malicious or subversive behavior.

   Their wordsThe longer the time an AI system can operate for and the more actions it takes, the harder it gets to discern benign and helpful behaviors from malicious or subversive ones.

   ↗Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI’s accidental AI hackerjack-clark.net 3rd of 3 in this piece