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

This is maybe my number one worry about all of this, is if you discover yourself in partnership with the AI system, you are uniquely vulnerable to all of the failures of that AI system.

And not just failures, but the personality of the AI system will shape you

If you haven't, you know, I'm going to sound very Californian here, even though I'm from England, it's soaked its way into my brain.

You have to know yourself and have done some work on yourself, I think, to be effective in being able to critique how this AI system gives you advice.

And so for my kids, I'm going to encourage them to just have like a daily journaling practice from an extremely young age, because my bet is that in the future, there will be kind of two types of people.

There will be people who have

co-created their personality through a back and forth with an AI.

And some of that will just be weird.

They will seem a little different to like regular people, and there will maybe be problems that creep in because of that.

And there will be people who have worked on understanding themselves outside the bubble of technology, and then bring that as context in with their interactions.

And I think that latter type of person will do better.

But ensuring that people do that is actually going to be hard.

Yes.

But this to me is, I think, it will change how these systems get built.

It will change, I think, best practices that people have with these systems.

And I think that we actually don't quite understand what this interaction looks like, but it's extremely important to understand it.

I mean, just to go back, how...

In the same way that you can get Claude to ask you questions to more clearly specify what you're trying to do, and that leads to a better outcome, I think we're going to need to build ways that these systems can

try and elicit from the person the actual problem they're trying to solve rather than kind of go down a freewheeling path together.

Because in some cases, especially people that are kind of going through some kind of mental crisis, that is the exact moment when a friend would say, this is nonsense.

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