Jack Clark

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541 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 27 Mar

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Hard Fork · The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? · 27 Mar 2026 podcast

Anything that helps speed up the time it takes to both speak to medical professionals and take work off their plate.

You know, we had another baby recently.

I spend a lot of time on the Kaiser Permanente advice line because the baby's bonked its head or its skin's a different color today or, you know, all of these things.

And I use Claude to sort of stop me and my wife panicking while we're waiting to talk to the nurse.

But then I listen to the nurse do all of this triaging, ask all of these questions.

So obviously, a huge chunk of this is stuff that you could use AI systems productively for, and it would help

the people that we don't have enough of spend their time more effectively, and it would be able to give reassurance to the people going through the system.

And that's maybe less inspiring and glamorous than maybe some of what you're imagining.

But I think mostly when people interact with public services, their main frustration is just that it's opaque and it takes you a long time to speak to a person.

But actually, these are exactly the kinds of things that AI could meaningfully work on.

We've got a country of junior employees in the data center.

Let's do something with that.

Like, you know, one thing we haven't talked about in this conversation, and it's just worth bearing in mind, is like the frontier of science is open for business now in a way that it hasn't been before.

And what I mean by that is...

We've found a way to build systems that can provably accelerate human scientists.

Human scientists are extremely rare.

They come out at the end of like PhD programs, which never have enough people, and they work on extremely important problems.

I think we can get into a world where the government says, like, let's understand the workings of a human cell.

Let's team up with the best AI systems to do that.

Let's actually have a better story on how we deal with some issues like Alzheimer's and other things, partly through the use of these huge amounts of computation that have been developed.

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