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

Another example is a colleague recently wrote a post about how they're working using agents.

And it looks almost like an idealized life that many of us might want, where it's like, I wake up in the morning, I think about the research that I want, I tell five different clouds to do it, then I go for a run.

Then I come back from the run, and I look at the results.

And then I asked two other clouds to like, study the results, figure out which directions best and do that.

Then I go for a walk and then I come back and it just looks like this really fun existence where they have completely upended how work works for them.

And they're both much more effective, but also they're now spending most of their time on the actual hard part, which is figuring out what do we use our human agency to do?

And they're working really hard to figure out anything that isn't the special kind of genius and creativity of being a person.

How do I get the AI system to do it for me?

Because it probably can if I ask in the right way.

I'd turn this back and say, I think most people, at least this has been my experience, can do about two to four hours of genuinely useful creative work a day.

And after that, you're, in my experience, you're trying to do all the like, turn your brain off schlep work that surrounds that work.

Now, I've found that I can just be spending those two to four hours a day on the actual creative hard work.

And if I've got any of this schlep work, I increasingly delegate it to AI systems.

It does, though, mean that we are going to be...

In a very dangerous situation as a species where some people have the luxury of having time to spend on developing their skills or the personality inclination or job that forces them to, other people might just fall into being entertained and passively consuming this stuff and having this

junk food work experience where it looks to the outside like you're being very productive, but you're not learning.

I think that's going to require us to have to change not just how education works, but how work works and develop some real strategies for making sure people are actually exercising their mind with this stuff.

Well, I have a range of colleagues.

I meet with a bunch of them once a week, especially the researchers, because you're figuring out research.

And so at the beginning of every week on Sunday night or Monday morning, I look at my week and I check whether

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