Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells the IMF: the Singularity has begun
Import AI (Jack Clark) · rss · 2026-10-19
In Import AI 477, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark publishes his Per Jacobsson lecture at the IMF meeting in Bangkok, arguing the Singularity has begun. Key claims: AI has already surpassed most software engineers (Anthropic researchers now produce 10x the code of the company's first four years); early evidence of AI doing frontier science spans math (Navier-Stokes, Jacobian Conjecture, Erdős problems), biology (de novo virus design, AI-designed drugs in trials), and robotics (autonomous lab operation); expect the pace of all scientific progress to accelerate, bringing both great wealth and great peril.
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