Jack Clark
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Jack Clark is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 20, 2021 and December 10, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “most of OpenAI’s top alignment researchers, including … Jack Clark”; “Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and used to be Head of Policy at OpenAI”; “A story “in the style of Scott Alexander or Jack Clark”“. It most often appears alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, facebook.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: May 20, 2021
- Last seen: December 10, 2025
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- OpenAI (3 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (2 shared issues)
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- facebook (2 shared issues)
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- GPT-3 (2 shared issues)
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- Leon Trotsky (2 shared issues)
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- New York (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- 100 Above The Park (1 shared issues)
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- 2024 Post-Mortem Of Neoreaction (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
35: Recent news in local AI alignment research space: most of OpenAI’s top alignment researchers, including Dario Amodei, Chris Olah, Jack Clark, and Paul Christano, left en masse for poorly-understood reasons (see speculation here). Dario Amodei is now working with a new nonprofit called Cooperative AI Foundation. Paul Christiano will be founding his own nonprofit, the Alignment Research Center (conflict of interest notice: I know Paul and think he is generally great); see also his ask-me-anything thread on Less Wrong here. Unrelatedly, local secretive AI alignment research group MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) is leaving the Bay Area for some small town with affordable land prices where they can maybe build a campus (they’re still trying to decide exactly where).
Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and used to be Head of Policy at OpenAI. His perspective is somewhat different than mine, but he is very knowledgeable and I recommend his thread (which you can read by clicking on the tweet above). No, there are not 1,602 spicy takes in the thread. The fact that an AI policy leader didn’t consider that his plan would become unworkable in an extreme scenario is probably a metaphor for something. But if this interests you, you can read 80,000 Hours’ Guide To Working In AI Policy And Strategy and maybe get involved. If you ever figure out the plan, let me know.
Inline links: 80,000 Hours’ Guide To Working In AI Policy And Strategy
3: A story “in the style of Scott Alexander or Jack Clark” about the two-door meme (meme below).
Inline links: A story “in the style of Scott Alexander or Jack Clark”