What Jack Clark thinks about infrastructure

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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 readingThe future internet will function like an ecology of attacking and defending AI agents, with some agents carving out autonomous niches beyond human control.

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   Their wordsThe future internet is going to be more like a complex ecology full of attacker and defender AI agents than anything else; research like this shows how certain AI agents might end up carving out their own ecological niches, living off of infrastructure and self-replicating autonomously, beyond human control.

   ↗Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativityjack-clark.net 1st of 3 in this piece