What Jared Kaplan thinks about AI agents

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Co-founder of Anthropic; a theoretical physicist for most of his career before he turned to AI.

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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Jared Kaplan has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 16 Jun 2025

   Our readingEventually AI models, perhaps millions working together, may be able to do the work of whole human organizations.

   Their wordsEventually, we imagine AI models—or millions of AI models perhaps working together—will be able to do the work that whole human organizations can do.

   ↗Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI (Jared Kaplan, AI Startup School, Y Combinator; speaker-labelled transcript)ycombinator.com 3rd of 9 in this piece

3. 16 Jun 2025

   Our readingHow long a task a model can accomplish depends largely on its ability to notice its own mistakes and correct them.

   Their wordsI think that a lot of what determines the horizon length of what models can accomplish is their ability to notice that they're doing something wrong and correct it.

   ↗Scaling and the Road to Human-Level AI (Jared Kaplan, AI Startup School, Y Combinator; speaker-labelled transcript)ycombinator.com 9th of 9 in this piece