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May 21, 2026

Anthropic Co-Founder Predicts AI Will Make Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery Within a Year

Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, stated that AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, describing a 'vertiginous sense of progress' alongside risks of the technology.

May 21, 2026·1 source
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  • ▪Jack Clark predicted that companies run solely by AIs would be generating millions of dollars in revenue within 18 months of May 21, 2026
  • ▪Professor Edward Harcourt, director of the Institute for Ethics in AI, warned that the rise of AIs that did more and more things for humans risked creating cognitive atrophy which could weaken humans' decision-making and powers of judgment
  • ▪Critics of frontier AI companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google fear over-reliance on their few AI models could create a single point of failure in global systems

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