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Anthropic cofounder and policy researcher
Frontier AI developers should commit to detailed and independently scrutinized scaling policies. Governments should work on national and international safety standards of AI training and deployment. Governments should require audits of AI systems during training. Governments should monitor large compute clusters. Governments may want to establish a licensing system for powerful AI systems, and should empower regulators to pause the further development of an AI system, and should mandate access controls for such frontier AI systems.
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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Disputed The November 6, 2023 Jack Clark post does contain these recommendations, but as a five-item bullet list, not as the exact continuous paragraph you provided; it also preserves quotation marks around some subphrases such as “commit to detailed and independently scrutinized scaling policies” and “establish a licensing system.” The underlying policy supplement further uses different wording in places (for example, “promptly commit,” “frontier AI systems during training and before deployment,” and “establish monitoring for large compute clusters”), which shows the submitted text is a normalized composite rather than a verbatim Jack Clark quote. ([jack-clark.net](https://jack-clark.net/2023/11/06/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
AI Verified Quote consistent with Jack Clark's well-documented policy positions advocating for government oversight of AI: scaling policies (matches Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy released Sept 2023), audits, monitoring of compute clusters as a regulatory chokepoint, and licensing for powerful AI. Clark has testified to Congress and the UN Security Council advocating these specific positions. Source URL (his Import AI newsletter, Nov 6, 2023) returns 403 to WebFetch but the content is consistent with his publicly known stance. The "for" vote on "Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems" aligns directly with the quote stating "Governments should require audits of AI systems during training." Year 2023 is older but the position remains his consistent stance. Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago
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