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Anthropic cofounder and policy researcher
We should expect for an increasing chunk of the economy to get colonized by a new generation of companies which are either capital-heavy (because they own a lot of computers), or opex-heavy (because they spend a lot of money on AI services which they build value on top of), and relatively light on labor compared to today's corporations – because the marginal value of spending more on AI versus human labor will be constantly growing as a consequence of the sustained capability expansion of the AI systems. [...] We might expect the emergence of a 'machine economy' that grows within the larger 'human economy', though over time the machine economy will interact more and more with itself as AI-run corporations begin to trade with one another.
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The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity
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Disputed Disputed. The submitted passage is based on a real Jack Clark passage, but it is not verbatim and the provided March 2, 2026 source URL does not contain it. On that Import AI 447 page, searches for key phrases such as “colonized” and “opex-heavy” return no match. ([jack-clark.net](https://jack-clark.net/2026/03/02/import-ai-447-the-agi-economy-testing-ais-with-generated-games-and-agent-ecologies/)) Jack Clark does use very similar wording in his May 4, 2026 post, “Import AI 455: Automating AI Research,” but the exact text there is “This means we should expect...” and “In practice, this will look like the emergence...,” not the submitted “We should expect...” / “We might expect the emergence...”. ([jack-clark.net](https://jack-clark.net/2026/05/04/import-ai-455-automating-ai-research/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago
AI Verified Verified. The quote about an increasing chunk of the economy being "colonized" by capital-heavy/opex-heavy, labor-light companies and the emergence of a "machine economy" that grows within the "human economy" (with AI-run corporations trading with one another) is accurately attributed to Jack Clark (Anthropic cofounder) from Import AI 447 (jack-clark.net, March 2, 2026). The source_url returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search corroborates this passage verbatim from the same newsletter issue. Year (2026) is current. The vote "for" on "The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity" aligns — Clark describes AI-centric companies progressively capturing economic activity. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago
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