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AI reporter → Import AI → Anthropic co-founder: from chronicling frontier models to helping govern one.
Clark started by reporting the machinery underneath the internet, followed distributed systems into the deep-learning boom, became Bloomberg's specialist AI reporter, then crossed the membrane into OpenAI policy. From there he helped found Anthropic, while continuing to build public institutions meant to make frontier AI legible from the inside.
Jul 2010
Clark began as a reporter at ZDNet UK, covering enterprise technology before the modern AI boom. The beat put him close to the computing infrastructure that would later become the substrate for large-scale machine learning.
RECEIPTS: U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologyreported
Feb 2013
At The Register, Clark covered distributed systems, supercomputers, databases, novel memory technologies, and artificial intelligence. The infrastructure reporter was moving steadily toward the models being built on top of that infrastructure.
RECEIPTS: U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologyreported
Aug 2014
Clark joined Bloomberg and BusinessWeek, initially covering enterprise companies and later Google, while specializing in and leading Bloomberg's artificial-intelligence coverage as deep learning became a central technology story.
RECEIPTS: U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyreportedImport AIfirst-party
Sep 2016
Clark joined OpenAI as Policy Director, taking responsibility for policy, communications, strategy and safety research, and external affairs. He had moved from explaining frontier AI from outside the labs to helping shape one from within.
RECEIPTS: U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologyreported
2017
Clark became a founding member of Stanford's AI Index, helping create a recurring public record of progress in artificial intelligence while continuing to write Import AI.
RECEIPTS: Import AIfirst-party
May 28, 2021
Clark became a co-founder of Anthropic as the new AI safety and research company emerged publicly in 2021. The journalist-turned-policy executive was now helping build a frontier lab of his own.
2026
Anthropic made Clark Head of Public Benefit and put him in charge of the Anthropic Institute, an internal think tank studying the societal consequences of frontier AI using information available from inside a leading model developer.