Jack Clark on torn between AI's ethereal future and real life
jackclarkSF · x · 2026-10-10
Jack Clark (co-founder of Anthropic, editor of Import AI) shares a personal reflection: he often feels torn between the ethereal future implied by AI progress and the physical reality of friends and punk shows. Increasingly the two worlds combine — like reading materials science research for Import AI while listening to Jamie T before dawn. He adds that Jamie T is a criminally underrated poet-singer spanning punk, garage, dnb and ska.
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