Michael Darius Eastwood · Independent AI alignment researcher
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Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder): 'gas pedal but no brake pedal' - Newsnight/CNN Jun 5; BBC World Service The Interview (Faisal Islam) Jun 19.
Jack Clark's brake pedal interviews, on Newsnight and CNN on 5 June and on the BBC World Service on 19 June, argued that the AI industry has an accelerator and no brake, and that recursive self-improvement is the risk that makes one necessary. The World Service interviewer was the same journalist the author had emailed his book to in January. The substance of the convergence is the co-founder of the confirming laboratory publicly adopting the manuscript's core concern nineteen months after it was written.
Open the primary source above. Confirm the date. Confirm the finding. Then compare it against the manuscript passage or artifact named in the register entry, whose SHA-256 hash is published on the evidence page. Nothing in this article asks for trust; the entry either survives that comparison or it comes off the register, publicly, the way the programme's retracted scaling figure did.
From the book Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything by Michael Darius Eastwood.