Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark declares "the singularity is here" at IMF, drawing backlash
JHochderffer · x · 2026-10-18
Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark, speaking at the IMF annual meeting (Per Jacobsson lecture, "Inside the Event Horizon"), declared that "the singularity is here" — not sci-fi future. His core claims: AI is accelerating the pace of all science (physics, biology, medicine, energy), society will plunge into intense chaos and disorientation as norms are rewritten, and unprecedented wealth and danger will arrive simultaneously. X user JHochderffer shared the Japanese coverage and pushed back sharply: "Can these cult followers at Anthropic just stop talking?" — a window into growing backlash against frontier-lab doomer/singularity rhetoric.
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