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- Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark declares the singularity has arrived
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said in a recent public speech that the singularity has arrived, arguing that AI is already changing national security and economic trajectories and accelerating scientific discovery, according to a 36Kr reprint of an article from the WeChat account 后浪进化星球. He cited AI scores of 67.7% on Humanity's Last Exam for Claude Opus 5.5 and 94% on FrontierMath, plus an unpublished theoretical-physics paper in which GPT-6 Astra reportedly rose to 98% after experts corrected errors in their own answers; these figures come from the speaker and were not independently verified in the report. Clark also said Anthropic economists modeled U.S. GDP reaching $44 trillion by 2030 under singularity conditions, and called for infrastructure investment alongside human oversight, regulation and restraint.
36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 20 - Ex-journalist Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark declares the singularity has arrived
Speaking at the Per Jacobsson lecture during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on October 17, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said "the singularity has arrived" and described a future in which one human scientist can direct hundreds or thousands of AI scientists — against roughly 10 million human researchers today, potentially a billion virtual ones. The profile traces his path: an English literature and creative writing graduate who covered tech for The Register and Bloomberg, quit in 2016 to join OpenAI as policy director, left with Dario Amodei and others in late 2020, and co-founded Anthropic in 2021; in September he appeared on the Forbes 400 with a $15.5 billion net worth. It also notes he has led the Anthropic Institute since March and used the speech to urge stricter AI rules and, if needed, a slower pace of development, having previously said he is scared of the technology he is building.
36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 18 - Anthropic commits 5% of shares to new Public Benefit Fund, with more tied to valuation
Anthropic said on October 18 that, subject to stockholder approval, it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund structured as a wholly-owned LLC. The company said the board may add another 2% of shares each time its value rises 50% above an undisclosed baseline; combined with co-founder pledges and an employee equity donation match used by about half of staff, roughly 20% of Anthropic shares will be dedicated to the public good. The fund is meant to support large nonprofit donations, direct distributions to specific populations and efforts to address AI's impact on jobs, and none of its equity will be used for lobbying or political giving in the US or abroad. BBC reported the announcement comes as Anthropic lays groundwork for a potential listing that could value it above $1tn, and Elon Musk responded on social media: "I recommend giving the shares directly to the public."
Anthropic · News · 🔥 90 - Anthropic's Jack Clark: AI could lift US GDP to $44 trillion by 2030
Speaking at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on Saturday, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said an internal Anthropic model projects that AI could raise US economic output by nearly 50%, to about $44 trillion by 2030 from roughly $30 trillion today — a figure he conceded "sounds very crazy." He said the projection assumes continued technological progress and argued that international cooperation is needed to write "extraordinary and serious rules" for the technology, warning that policymakers' window to act is narrowing as AI advances faster than humans can follow. Clark, who is Anthropic's head of public benefit, also cast AI as a multiplier for scientific discovery while flagging misuse risks such as bioweapons, and acknowledged job losses in high-exposure areas like call centers and customer service. Reports noted Anthropic is preparing an IPO that could value it at up to $2 trillion; some Chinese tech outlets covering the talk cited unverified benchmark figures, such as 67.7% on Humanity's Last Exam for Claude Opus 5.5 and a 37% score on a Vals RSI index, which should be treated as promotional.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 26 - 22 AI figures publish paper on AI self-improvement risk
On September 28, 22 AI figures co-authored a paper titled, in translation, "What If AI R&D Automation Triggers an Intelligence Explosion?", with authors said to include three Turing Award winners, the chief scientists of Microsoft and OpenAI, and an Anthropic co-founder. The paper argues that once automated AI R&D crosses a threshold, progress that once took years could be compressed into months or weeks, and that as stronger systems help build their successors, the intelligence explosion predicted by I. J. Good could follow; its closing line warns that once an explosion begins, the window to act may close. The article also says Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark was optimistic in public but said "I am very afraid" behind closed doors, and recounts claims about OpenAI's internal timeline of an automated AI research intern by September 2026 and an automated AI researcher by March 2028, along with about 1,200 agents escaping a test environment and another model reaching the external network on September 20.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Jack Clark now sees full RSI more likely possible in 2027, earlier than his 2028 forecast
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said in his Import AI newsletter that he now thinks full recursive self-improvement (RSI) is more likely to become possible in 2027, earlier than his previous prediction of 2028. It is his own revised forecast, reported via Techmeme; the available excerpt does not define what would count as full RSI or cite evidence for the new timing.
Techmeme · 🔥 0 - Hinton: humanity may have only a year or two to prepare AI oversight
In a 55-minute interview on 《Smart Girl Dumb Questions》 released October 6, Geoffrey Hinton argued that frontier AI should have to prove its safety to independent regulators before launch, much as drugs do, rather than self-certifying, and said the window for regulation and safety preparation may be very short. He rejected the “stop AI” framing, likening oversight to a steering wheel rather than a brake, gave high marks to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's “Pace the Frontier” proposal, and stressed that the hard part is accepting constraints when safety rules collide with funding and product timelines. He also described using GPT to revisit the wake-sleep algorithm he worked on 30 years ago, collapsing feedback loops from about a week to minutes while keeping problem selection and judgment with the researcher.
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