Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic and Head of Public Benefit for Anthropic PBC, recently confirmed that the artificial intelligence firm provided a briefing to the Trump administration regarding its innovative Mythos model.
Unveiled just last week, the Mythos model is deemed too potent for public release, primarily owing to its purported advanced cybersecurity functionalities.
During an interview at Semafor’s World Economy summit this week, Clark elaborated on Anthropic's continued engagement with the U.S. government, even amidst ongoing legal proceedings against the same entity.
In March, Anthropic initiated a lawsuit against the Trump administration's Department of Defense (DOD), following the agency's designation of the company as a supply chain risk. This legal action stemmed from a disagreement with the Pentagon concerning the military's demand for unrestricted access to Anthropic’s AI systems for applications such as mass surveillance of American citizens and the development of fully autonomous weapons. Ultimately, OpenAI secured the contract instead.
At the summit, Clark largely dismissed the administration's classification of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, characterizing it as merely a “narrow contracting dispute.” He emphasized that the company did not wish this issue to overshadow its commitment to national security.
Clark articulated Anthropic's stance, stating, “Our position is the government has to know about this stuff, and we have to find new ways for the government to partner with a private sector that is making things that are truly revolutionizing the economy, but are going to have aspects to them which hit National Security, equities, and other ones.” He unequivocally added, “So absolutely, we talked to them about Mythos, and we’ll talk to them about the next models as well.”
This confirmation follows reports from last week indicating that Trump administration officials had been actively encouraging major financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley, to trial the Mythos model.
Beyond governmental relations, Clark also delved into other significant societal impacts of AI during the interview, particularly addressing concerns surrounding unemployment and the future of higher education.
While Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has previously cautioned that advancements in AI could lead to unemployment levels reminiscent of the Great Depression, Clark offered a nuanced disagreement. He clarified that Amodei's projections are rooted in the belief that AI's power will escalate far more rapidly and profoundly than widely anticipated.
Clark, who leads Anthropic’s team of economists, indicated that the company has thus far observed only “some potential weakness in early graduate employment” within specific sectors. Nevertheless, he affirmed Anthropic’s preparedness for any significant shifts in the employment landscape.
When pressed for advice on specific college majors students should pursue or avoid in light of AI’s impending impacts, Clark offered a broad recommendation: the most valuable fields of study are those that “involve synthesis across a whole variety of subjects and analytical thinking about that.”
He elaborated on this perspective, stating, “That’s because what AI allows us to do is it allows you to have access to sort of an arbitrary amount of subject matter experts in different domains.” Clark concluded by highlighting the critical human element: “But the really important thing is knowing the right questions to ask and having intuitions about what would be interesting if you collided different insights from many different disciplines.”
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