person
Jack Clark
Co-founder of Anthropic; Import AI newsletter
Former OpenAI policy director turned Anthropic co-founder. Writes the weekly Import AI newsletter, which has become a reference text for the AI policy community. Testifies regularly to Congress.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Co-founder Anthropic; head of policy. Authored Anthropic's 'AI Index' report background work and Import AI newsletter. Reads research closely, does not produce it.
recognition
Field-leading
Widely known inside the AI and AI-safety community. Appears repeatedly in top venues, podcasts, or governance forums. Not a household name to outsiders.
Key voice in US/UK AI policy circles. Cited by congressional aides and mainstream-tech press.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
Joined OpenAI 2016, co-founded Anthropic 2021. Operational career is deep-learning era, with policy voice maturing in scaling era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesAdvocates for measurement-driven, iterative regulation of frontier AI with light-touch but progressive constraints.
AI is moving faster than the government infrastructure available to understand it. That gap is the governance problem.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.