Be Jack Clark (british cofounder of Anthropic): > Grow up in Brighton > Study English Literature & Creative Writing at University of East Anglia > Become a journalist covering technology, finance and environmental issues > Double down on tech > Become world's only "distributed systems reporter" at The Register > Move to Bloomberg, become their neural network reporter > Interview a Google researcher named Dario Amodei about a paper called "Concrete Problems in AI Safety" which changes your life > Leave journalism and join OpenAI in strategy & comms (2016) > Rise to Policy Director > Start writing Import AI, a newsletter, on the side > Leave openai in 2021 with Dario, Daniela and four others > Co-found Anthropic - a company with no product, no revenue, just a safety thesis > Become Head of Policy, then Head of Public Benefit > Spend the next few years explaining AI to governments > Advise the OECD, the Global Partnership on AI, Stanford's AI Index > Keep writing Import AI every single week regardless > Newsletter grows from a niche read to 100,000+ subscribers > End up one of the most-cited voices on AI policy on the planet (and probably a billionaire) One of the most successful operators to ever come out of UK tech. Absolute GOAT. nice @jackclarkSF