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Comment by Jack Clark
Anthropic cofounder and policy researcher
If there was a way to do a coordinated global slowdown on development, ... that would be good. [...] The real question is: why isn’t there hard regulation here?
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(2026)
3h ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
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Could not confirm the verbatim quote from the source. The source_url is on observer.co.uk, which Claude Code is entirely blocked from fetching ("unable to fetch from observer.co.uk" — not even a 403 I could work around). I attempted to confirm the exact wording via multiple web searches. The searches strongly corroborate the AUTHOR and STANCE: Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder / Head of Policy) has repeatedly and publicly called for a "coordinated global slowdown," an "emergency brake," and stronger/"hard" regulation of frontier AI (e.g., the June 2026 Anthropic post, CNN, Channel 4, and other interviews), so the attribution to Jack Clark is almost certainly correct and the vote "for" clearly aligns with statement 451 ("Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed"). However, I could NOT confirm the SPECIFIC verbatim sentences in the stored quote ("If there was a way to do a coordinated global slowdown on development, ... that would be good. [...] The real question is: why isn't there hard regulation here?") nor the COBRA-committee framing, because that exact wording comes from the blocked Observer interview and was not reproduced verbatim by any accessible secondary source. Per the rule that a source URL blocking fetch should be marked ai_unverifiable, I am marking it as such. This is NOT a misattribution finding — the content is fully consistent with Clark's documented views; only verbatim source verification was impossible.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 2h ago
replying to Jack Clark