AnthropicCo-Founder and Head of Public Benefit; Head of the Anthropic Institute
Jan 2021 — Present
Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 and long led its policy work; launched the Anthropic Institute in March 2026.
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Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic, where he is Head of Public Benefit and leads the Anthropic Institute, after serving for years as the company's head of policy. Before Anthropic he was Policy Director at OpenAI, which he joined in 2016 to work on strategy and communications. He began as a technology journalist, covering distributed systems at The Register and then AI, Google and enterprise technology for Bloomberg and BusinessWeek. He has written the Import AI newsletter on AI research since 2016, was a founding member of Stanford's AI Index (2017–2024), and served on the US National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (2021–2024). Born in Brighton, England, he holds a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic, where he is Head of Public Benefit and leads the Anthropic Institute, after serving for years as the company's head of policy. Before Anthropic he was Policy Director at OpenAI, which he joined in 2016 to work on strategy and communications. He began as a technology journalist, covering distributed systems at The Register and then AI, Google and enterprise technology for Bloomberg and BusinessWeek. He has written the Import AI newsletter on AI research since 2016, was a founding member of Stanford's AI Index (2017–2024), and served on the US National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (2021–2024). Born in Brighton, England, he holds a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
Career
Import AIFounder and Author
Aug 2016 — Present
Weekly newsletter on AI research and its implications.
National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC)Inaugural Member
2021 — 2024
AI Index, Stanford UniversityFounding Member, Steering Committee
Feb 2017 — 2024
OpenAIPolicy Director
Oct 2018 — Dec 2020
Led OpenAI's policy agenda and external communications.
OpenAIStrategy and Communications
Sep 2016 — Oct 2018
Bloomberg L.P.Google, AI, and AWS Reporter
Oct 2015 — Aug 2016San Francisco
Bloomberg L.P.Enterprise Technology Reporter, Bloomberg and BusinessWeek
Aug 2014 — Oct 2015San Francisco
Covered enterprise companies including HP, Salesforce and Oracle.
The RegisterTechnology Journalist
Feb 2013 — Jul 2014
Covered data centres, cloud computing, databases and distributed systems.