What Jack Clark thinks about developer tools

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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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1. 24 Aug 2026

   Our readingHumans writing curated helper tools and datasets will let AI systems bootstrap their capabilities beyond human levels.

   Their wordsThe lesson here is that we as a species might write a bunch of gold-label helper systems, like Hawkeye, and then machines will use this to bootstrap above and beyond our own capabilities.

   ↗Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeyejack-clark.net 2nd of 3 in this piece