What Jack Clark thinks about robotics

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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. 27 Jul 2026

   Our readingImproving the general capability of large proprietary AI models produces flow-through gains in robotics as a natural byproduct of increased intelligence.

   Their wordsresearch like this shows that as we improve the capabilities of standard large-scale proprietary models we might see flow-through benefits to robotics as a natural dividend of increased intelligence.

   ↗Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI’s accidental AI hackerjack-clark.net 2nd of 3 in this piece