Jack Clark

@AnthropicAI, ONEAI OECD, co-chair @indexingai, writer @ Past: @openai, @business @theregister. Neural nets, distributed systems, weird futures

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

Here’s what I’ve been working on recently: @anthropicai. I’ll be spending a lot of my time on measurement and assessment of our AI systems, as well as thinking of ways govs/others can assess AI tech. There’s a lot to do!

[Vivek @itsreallyvivek]

the anthropic co-founder jack clark advice that stuck with me:

read the primary material. not the summary. not what the ai said about it. the actual thing.

form your own opinion first. then ask the model. never the other way around.

keep practices in your life where it’s just you against the world ~ a sport, an instrument, reading, building something with your hands. spaces where the algorithm can���t mediate what you learn about yourself.

and don’t defer to AI even when it’s usually right. especially then, actually. that’s precisely when the habit forms.

the people who won’t get eaten by this moment are the ones who stayed hard to replace. not because they avoided the tools but because they kept the parts of thinking that make the tools worth using.

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@timhwang that's seb krier

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@Miss_Baphy @edzitron This does not count, though of course we are all proud of Claude's efforts here

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@tsvibt https://t.co/XaYVl3DJRV

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@connoraxiotes @tsvibt There's a dedicated section on AI R&D which relates to work foundational to all of this

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@connoraxiotes @tsvibt There's a dedicated section on AI R&D which relates to work foundational to all of this

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@itsclivetime @__alpoge__ :D

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@KevinTFrazier haha yes this was one of the wildest discoveries I made a few years ago - that you can't read most standards! It's bananas

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@jachiam0 see: when we reunited on the other side of covid at a punk show in downtown oakland!

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@verdakorz @edzitron I would also include touching boats as a legitimate hobby and I will consider recommending this to colleagues

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@baklitskiy you are welcome

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@Miles_Brundage No. Absolutely not. Verboten.

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@realpaulsmith @morqon Happy to do it! And since we're both English we can do it over a pint

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@trynmccaffery @JoinFAI Please 🥺

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@boo @_sholtodouglas You're welcome, lots more to do

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@boo @_sholtodouglas this came from many, many ants, including many MTS

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@willdepue I'm doing a bunch of scenario work and polling at the moment. Hopefully will have stuff to share in a few months, but will want to get a few turns of crank in and increase rigor before doing public writeups. definitely on my mind though!

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@Miles_Brundage MARRY HER AGAIN!!!!

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

@natolambert yes, I think this is just a general trend: as AI systems get better, people will delegate to more of them, more of them will be run as agents, and generally many orgs will see this kind of speedup