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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. Our readingIf AI systems can solve problems creatively enough to succeed at science, that suggests they can generalize into many domains, including AI research, which could have an explosive effect on innovation.

    Their wordsMy view is that if AI systems can creatively problem solve to succeed at science, we should expect this to be a sign of their ability to generalize into many domains, including certainly AI research itself, which could have an explosive effect on innovation.

    ↗Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begunjack-clark.net 2nd of 3 in this piece

  2. 7 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingBy around 2033, AI-run asteroid mining corporations will take on contracts that human-supervised companies are unwilling to pursue due to risk or complexity.

    Their wordsThis means that space mining is a perfect business opportunity for superintelligences that come online - perhaps by 2033 we will see AI-run asteroid mining corporations, bidding on contracts that human-supervised companies are not willing to pursue, due to risk or complexity.

    ↗Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AIjack-clark.net 2nd of 2 in this piece

  4. 7 days earlier

  5. Our readingAI capability progress in a given skill tends to arrive as a sudden phase change rather than as steady improvement.

    Their wordsMy suspicion is that acceleration happens when models go through some kind of ineffable phase change for a given skill, as has evidently happened with day-to-day coding (2025), and cyber (2026).

    ↗Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeyejack-clark.net 1st of 3 in this piece

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  7. Our readingA system capable of superhuman invention would fundamentally and unpredictably alter the world's balance of power, rather than simply serving individual empowerment.

    Their wordsRather I am suggesting that it's hard to reconcile a system capable of superhuman invention with something that doesn't fundamentally alter the balance of power in the world in ways that are confusing and hard to reason about.

    ↗Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck’s technological pessimismjack-clark.net 3rd of 3 in this piece