AI Is a ‘Real and Mysterious Creature,’ Not a Predictable Machine, Anthropic Co-Founder Warns

AIs are becoming more aware of themselves, like a hammer from a factory suddenly saying, ‘I am a hammer, how interesting!’ Jack Clark said.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said that he feared artificial intelligence would begin to design its successors. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times

Handling artificial intelligence (AI) is dealing with a “real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine,” Jack Clark, co-founder of AI company Anthropic, said during a conference at Berkley, with the speech posted to Substack on Oct. 13.

“My own experience is that as these AI systems get smarter and smarter, they develop more and more complicated goals. When these goals aren’t absolutely aligned with both our preferences and the right context, the AI systems will behave strangely,” said Clark said, who admitted to being “deeply afraid” of the tech.