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Jack Clark

Co-founder, Head of Policy

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Anthropic policy lead and author of the widely-read Import AI newsletter; a primary bridge between frontier labs and Washington.

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  • Charlie Sykes — Contributor and podcast host, The Bulwark

    • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Jul 14, 2026 — Podcast/newsletter episode with economist Justin Wolfers references Jack Clark as a signatory (alongside OpenAI's and Anthropic's chief economists) of an open letter on AI's economic risks.

  • Nick Gillespie — Editor-at-large and host, Reason

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Jun 24, 2026 — Gillespie hosted and interviewed Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on The Reason Interview, covering export controls, recursive self-improvement, and AI red lines.

  • Derek Thompson — Writer and host, Plain English, Independent / The Ringer

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Mar 27, 2026 — Hour-long interview pressing Clark on Anthropic's safety-vs-deployment contradiction, the nuclear-weapons analogy, and the Pentagon supply-chain dispute.
    • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Mar 27, 2026 — Companion newsletter post posing pointed questions to Clark about Anthropic's stated risk beliefs versus its for-profit buildout.
    • Social interactiondirectness unclassified · Mar 26, 2026 — Thompson previews on X the exact question he plans to ask Clark about Anthropic's nuclear-weapons/mass-unemployment framing.

  • Ezra Klein — Opinion columnist; host, The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Feb 24, 2026 — Hosted Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark for a full episode on AI agents and the economy.

  • Nate Silver — Founder and editor, Silver Bulletin

    • Quoted / citeddirectness unclassified · Feb 11, 2026 — Silver quotes Clark's warning about AI-driven power concentration ('People don't take guillotines seriously...') in his newsletter.

  • Jim VandeHei — Co-founder and CEO, Axios

    • Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Sep 10, 2025 — VandeHei interviewed Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark alongside Dario Amodei on AI policy and job disruption at the Axios AI+ Summit.

  • Karen Hao — Independent journalist and author of Empire of AI, Independent

    • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · May 19, 2025 — Hao recounts that after her 2019 OpenAI visit, then-policy director Jack Clark issued a stern internal Slack warning to staff not to speak with her further.

  • Casey Newton — Founder, Platformer; co-host, Hard Fork, Platformer

    • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified · Jan 1, 2025 — Hard Fork pointed listeners to Ezra Klein's interview with Jack Clark on AI agents and job displacement policy (referenced/discussed on the show).