Digital Future Daily

This week, we interviewed Jack Clark, co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic, the company behind frontier artificial intelligence models like Claude. Before this role, Clark was OpenAI’s policy director. We talked about how people are underestimating what AI will be able to do in a few years, hardening export controls to ensure AI technology is not stolen, and the power of the belief that scaling up compute will mean better AI.

What’s one underrated big idea?

People underrate how significant and fast-moving AI progress is. We have this notion that in late 2026, or early 2027, powerful AI systems will be built that will have intellectual capabilities that match or exceed Nobel Prize winners. They’ll have the ability to navigate all of the interfaces… they will have the ability to autonomously reason over kind of complex tasks for extended periods. They’ll also have the ability to interface with the physical world by operating drones or robots. Massive, powerful things are beginning to come into view, and we’re all underrating how significant that will be.