Jack Clark
AI policy & industry analysis
Anthropic co-founder, former OpenAI Policy Director. Writes Import AI newsletter.
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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis’ big policy plan
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now UK government: Gap between open and closed weight models on cyber is shrinking:…The cyber-eschaton cometh…The UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has analyzed the delta in […]
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Import AI 464: Fables writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Fable writes a decent GPU kernel, hinting at broader AI R&D automation:…The start of an RSI loop…Fable has written “the first genuine (and fastest) megakernel ever […]
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Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now NVIDIA sets up a crude self-improvement loop for real world robotics:…What if you could take the best ideas from AI agents and put them into the […]
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Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI can decisively out-persuade humans:…“AI systems were reliably more persuasive than expert humans”…Researchers with the University of Oxford, UK AI Security Institute, Stanford University, and the […]
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Import AI 461: “Alignment is not on track”; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI researchers launch new safety startup because “alignment is not on track”:…Sequent will have a portfolio of under-resourced research bets…Researchers from the UK AI Security Institute […]
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Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Society can be reward-hacked, just like cyber environments:…Imagine an army of credit card point optimizers gaming the system… forever…Research from Kings College London, Fudan University, and […]
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Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AI economy in the US is growing at 2,000% a year:…The more directly you measure the AI economy, the weirder and more unprecedented it seems […]
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Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. This issue consists of a lengthy essay based on a speech I recently gave, and a fictional story attempting to think through what a positive singularity might look […]
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Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Stuxnet before Stuxnet:…Fast16 bugs software likely used in weapons programs…Here’s a fascinating investigation of a ~20+ year old computer virus called fast16.sys. This software is interesting […]
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Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Regulate? Don’t regulate. There’s a third way: Radical Optionality:…Governments should invest in the tools now that they might need in a future crisis…Researchers with the Institute […]
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