Anthropic's Jack Clark: 'stochastic parrot' was a cognitive virus that blinded people for years
jackclarkSF · x · 2026-09-20
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark argues that "stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021 to 2025, temporarily blinding many gifted people to the nature of AI progress and "burning up crucial years" in which they could have helped think through how to respond. It's a pointed retrospective dismissal of the field's most famous skeptic framing, likely to spark debate.
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