AI, policy, and the weird sci-fi future with Anthropic’s Jack Clark

A conversation with Jack Clark, Co-founder and Head of Policy at Anthropic, about the state of AI technology, how policymakers should think about AI, and the weird AI future that’s already beginning to emerge.

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0:00 Introduction
1:46 How governments are thinking about AI
5:06 Potential economic and social impacts of AI
8:15 AI models as creative mirrors
10:35 The “rogue state” theory of AI
15:08 Challenges of machine time vs. human time
20:12 Communities of AI explorers
22:50 Fiction becomes reality
27:15 AI’s good and bad potential
30:22 AI policy in 2025
33:34 Key messages to policymakers
35:11 Recommendations