Anthropic's Jack Clark compares AI breakthroughs to hammers that suddenly become self-aware

AI Development and Consciousness

“The system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed.” That’s Jack Clark, one of the co-founders of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic. Of the latest version of their large language model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Clark writes that one can see that “its signs of situational awareness have …

Anthropic's Jack Clark compares AI breakthroughs to hammers that suddenly become self-aware

Anthropic co-founder and Head of Policy Jack Clark offers a look at how Silicon Valley AI leaders are thinking about the future of AI. The article Anthropic's Jack Clark compares AI breakthroughs to hammers that suddenly become self-aware appeared first on THE DECODER.