On October 16th, the day beforeOpenAI The former policy director and co-founder of Anthropic, Jack Clark, published a personal blog and warned against underestimating the potential and unknownness of artificial intelligence。
In this article, Jack takes as an example personal childhood experience:
When a child is in a dark room, clothes on a chair, bookshelves, etc., are seen as terrible monsters. But when the lights were turned on, the truth about the items was clear, and fear disappeared。
In response, Jack argued that today, 2025, the entire planet was that dark room, and that the monsters were powerful and unpredictable today and in the future AI System. Unlike childhood, this time when we "open the lights", we find these "monsters" real。
IT POINTS OUT THAT MANY PEOPLE PREFER TO BELIEVE THAT THESE POWERFUL AI SYSTEMS ARE JUST LIKE "A BUNCH OF CLOTHES ON A CHAIR" AND ARE JUST ORDINARY, HARMLESS TOOLS, AND THEY WANT TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS AND GO BACK TO SLEEP, PRETENDING THAT EVERYTHING IS OKAY。
Jack, on the other hand, vehemently opposed this view, stressing that you are now faced with a "real and mysterious creature" rather than just a simple, predictable machine。
Jack says, like the best fairy tales, we created this "living" ourselves. Our only way out is:
To recognize its truth, to overcome our own fears, to understand it, to live in peace with it and to find ways to manage it。