Jack Clark imagines 2032: machine-made math breakthroughs and the last human discoveries
jackclarkSF · x · 2026-09-25
In a speculative piece framed as a 2032 archival interview under the "Sentience Accords," Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark sketches a profession of "retrocausal analysis" bridging humanity's final discoveries and machine breakthroughs. The cascade of machine-made math results circa 2026 — flocks of synthetic minds solving open problems with human tools in unexpected ways — is described as "awesome and horrifying," a meditation on how AI-driven science reshapes research and society.
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