Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark declares the AI singularity has begun at IMF Bangkok summit
“I believe that this year we have gained convincing evidence that it has now begun.”— Jack Clark
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark delivered the prestigious Per Jacobsson lecture at the IMF Annual Meetings in Bangkok, publicly declaring that the AI singularity has begun in 2026, citing AI systems operating autonomously at the frontier of human science. He framed the speech as a warning to assembled economists, bankers, and policymakers that AI will drive change far exceeding current expectations. The significance is high: a sitting AI lab founder using a major multilateral economic forum to signal civilizational-scale disruption, while acknowledging personal culpability as both narrator and architect of that change.