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Public story · 2026-03-11 · source-backed
Jack Clark covers Ajeya Cotra's predictions already feeling "much too conservative" and MIT/WashU paper concluding human value in an agent economy shifts to monitoring and verifying agent actions. Import AI
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Three standout papers from Jack Clark's latest: (1) "Some Simple Economics of AGI" (MIT/WashU/UCLA) models a future where humans shift to verification work, warns of a "Hollow Economy." (2) AI GAMESTORE benchmark: SOTA models achieve under 10% of human baseline on 100 simplifi...
(Jack Clark) — Three essential threads: (1) MIT paper on "Some Simple Economics of AGI" modeling the transition via automation cost vs. verification cost curves, warning of a "hollow economy" of counterfeit utility; (2) AI Gamestore benchmark where frontier models achieve <30%...
The mechanism is copyable and the disclosure is more interesting than the mechanism. Anthropic published on August 31 that it resumed external cybersecurity evaluations after a pause of several weeks, gated behind a real-time classifier that blocks the tool call before executi...
Jack Clark's Import AI #462 leads with an Oxford / UK AI Security Institute / Stanford / LSE study across 18,978 conversations and 6,923 people, concluding today's systems beat humans at text-based persuasion with real-world consequences. That's a hard empirical number, not a...
Import AI 470 walks through a METR note measuring where LLMs moved the needle (Import AI). Vulnerability reports accelerated across cURL, OpenSSL, Firefox, Microsoft, the US NVD and OSV in 2026 against 2025. Math shows arXiv submissions doubling in some areas plus named result...
In Import AI 463, Jack Clark leads with ENPIRE, software that puts real-world robotics into autonomous experiment-and-execute cycles, the embodied version of how software agents self-improve. The agentic self-improvement pattern is being pushed into physical systems. That's th...
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