Jack Clark co-founded Anthropic and is its Head of Public Benefit; Clark leads The Anthropic Institute, which produces research on the societal implications of frontier AI, and oversees research teams including Societal Impacts, Frontier Red Team, Economic Research and Measuring AI Progress. Before Anthropic, Clark was Policy Director at OpenAI and earlier a technical journalist. Clark writes Import AI, a newsletter about AI research, and was a founding member of the AI Index at Stanford University from 2017 to 2024. Clark is also a co-author, with an OpenAI affiliation, of the GPT-3 and CLIP papers.1234
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit
- Company
- Anthropic
- Sector
- Company
- Education
- Stanford
- Work listed
- 3
- Sources cited
- 9
- Profile reviewed
Career
Clark began as a technical journalist, writing about distributed systems, quantum computers and AI research for publications from Bloomberg BusinessWeek to The Register. Clark then became Policy Director at OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic.2
At Anthropic, Clark is Head of Public Benefit and leads The Anthropic Institute, which studies the societal implications of frontier AI. Clark was also a founding member of the AI Index at Stanford University from 2017 to 2024 and an inaugural member of the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee from 2021 to 2024.12
Writing and research
Clark has written the Import AI newsletter about AI research since its first issue in August 2016, and writes science fiction stories for it.52
Clark co-authored reports on the societal effects of AI, including "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" (2018), a study of release strategies for language models (2019) and "Toward Trustworthy AI Development" (2020), which proposes mechanisms for making verifiable claims about AI systems. Clark is also a co-author of the GPT-3 and CLIP papers.67834
Work and contributions
CLIP Open weights
Co-author, with an OpenAI affiliation, of "Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision" (2021), which releases code and pre-trained weights under the MIT license.49
Import AI
Writes Import AI, a newsletter about AI research, published on Clark's own site.2
GPT-3 Published research
Co-author of "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" (2020).3
Timeline
- Published the first issue of the Import AI newsletter.5
- Became a founding member of the AI Index at Stanford University, serving until 2024.2
- Co-authored "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" on forecasting, prevention and mitigation.6
- Co-authored "Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models".7
- Co-authored "Toward Trustworthy AI Development", on mechanisms for supporting verifiable claims.8
- Co-authored the GPT-3 paper, "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners".3
- Became an inaugural member of the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee, serving until 2024.2
- Co-authored the CLIP paper on learning visual models from natural language supervision.4
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
- Policy Director, OpenAI12
- Founding member of the AI Index (2017–2024), Stanford University (AI Index)2
Where they work
- Anthropic 34 people in the wiki
Related people
- Collin BurnsAlso at Anthropic
- Samuel R. BowmanAlso at Anthropic
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- Ethan PerezAlso at Anthropic
- Nicholas CarliniAlso at Anthropic
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References
9 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026
- Leadership at Anthropic (Co-Founders, full bios)
- About — Import AI (Jack Clark)
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (arXiv 2005.14165)
- Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision (arXiv 2103.00020)
- Import AI: Issue 1
- The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation (arXiv 1802.07228)
- Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models (arXiv 1908.09203)
- Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims (arXiv 2004.07213)
- openai/CLIP repository (MIT License)