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Comment by Jack Clark

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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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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed
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AI Verified The quote clearly endorses the core idea of a coordinated global slowdown of AI development ('that would be good') and points to 'hard regulation' as the mechanism, implying support for creating the governmental/lab capacity to do such a slowdown if needed. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 13d ago
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AI Verified The quote says "a coordinated global slowdown on development ... would be good" and asks "why isn’t there hard regulation here?", which clearly supports having the means to impose such a slowdown. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 13d ago

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AI Verified Verified: the Observer article dated May 24, 2026 attributes both statements to Jack Clark. It contains the full slowdown sentence and, later in the same article, the question about "hard regulation." The submitted text is therefore a faithful ellipsis-compressed composite of two verbatim Clark quotes from that source. ([observer.co.uk](https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/uk-needs-to-form-cobra-committee-for-ai-says-anthropic-co-founder)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
AI Unverifiable 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. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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