Jess Whittlestone & Jack Clark: What Governments should do about AI artwork
Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society

Jess Whittlestone & Jack Clark: What Governments should do about AI

  • S1E20
  • 1:47:59
  • August 31st 2021

My guests today are Jess Whittlestone and Jack Clark. Jess is a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Existential Risk. Jack is a co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, and was previously Policy Director at OpenAI.

Together they are co-authors on a new paper on why and how governments should monitor AI deployment, which you can read here. In this conversation, we discuss the paper and the ways in which governments need to act not to ensure AI is a force for good in their societies.


Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show. You can learn more about Entrepreneur First at www.joinef.com and subscribe to my weekly newsletter at tib.matthewclifford.com

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