By Robert Booth
Publication Date: 2026-05-21 04:01:00
An AI system will work with humans to make a Nobel Prize-winning discovery within 12 months, and craftsmen will be assisted by bipedal robots in two years, according to Anthropic’s co-founder.
Jack Clark described a “dizzying sense of progress” in technology and made a number of predictions, including that companies run entirely by AIs would generate millions of dollars in revenue within 18 months and that AI systems would be able to design their own successors by the end of 2028.
In a lecture at the University of Oxford on Wednesday, he also said that there were still plausible scenarios in which the technology had “a non-zero chance of killing everyone on the planet” and that it was “important to be clear that this risk has not gone away.” Anthropic’s most popular model is called Claude, but the company recently launched a version called Mythos that proved alarmingly capable of exploiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
Clark told students it would be better if people…
