Jack Clark
Also known as Import AI
Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic, its Head of Public Benefit and a leader of the Anthropic Institute. He also writes Import AI, a recurring newsletter that explains research and considers its wider effects. Clark began as a technology journalist at The Register and Bloomberg. He later became policy director at OpenAI and helped establish the AI Index in 2017. He co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and worked on policy there. His public work includes research summaries, policy discussions and testimony to lawmakers. In March 2026, Anthropic announced his new public-benefit role and the Anthropic Institute. This work connects research on model behavior, social effects and economic change.
Timeline
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Journalism years
Reporting on technology
Clark worked as a journalist at The Register and Bloomberg. Reporting gave him a public role in explaining technical developments and the companies behind them. He later carried that interest in readable accounts of research into his newsletter and his work on AI policy.
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OpenAI policy years
Moving into policy work
Clark became policy director at OpenAI. The role moved him from reporting on technology to work inside an organization developing it. His public career began to connect technical capability with questions about government, measurement and the social effects of increasingly capable systems.
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2021
Co-founding Anthropic
Clark co-founded Anthropic in 2021. His earlier policy experience became part of a company developing AI systems. He continued public work through Import AI, connecting research summaries and commentary with questions about the way laboratories, governments and society respond to technical progress.
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March 2026
Taking the public-benefit role
Anthropic announced the Anthropic Institute in March 2026, with Clark taking the role of Head of Public Benefit. The institute brought together work on model testing, social impacts and economic effects. The announcement extended his policy work into a new company structure for studying consequences.
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2026
Keeping Import AI active
Clark continues to write Import AI, with entries covering research and its possible effects. He has a current leadership role at Anthropic. The newsletter remains a separate public channel where readers can follow technical papers, policy developments and Clark’s interpretations of where they may lead.
Sources and credits
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