What Jack Clark thinks about ideas vs execution

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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. 3 Aug 2026

   Our readingToday's AI systems are highly capable at engineering but lack the intuitive creativity needed to be good researchers, tending toward rote, formulaic thinking.

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   Their wordsResearch papers like this continue to show that there's a certain absence of valuable, intuitive creativity in today's AI systems, and though they're extraordinarily capable engineers they seem to have a certain property of rote, formulaic thinking that might prevent them being good researchers.

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