Import AI newsletter by Jack Clark: latest issues, cadence and price

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Issues

20 on file since Apr 20, 2026

20 of 20 issues

Date	Issue	Topic	When
Sep 21	Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics Sep 21 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3d ago
Sep 7	Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman Sep 7 · AI and agents	AI and agents	2w ago
Aug 31	Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI Aug 31 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3w ago
Aug 24	Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye Aug 24 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4w ago
Aug 17	Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism Aug 17 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5w ago
Aug 10	Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing Aug 10 · AI and agents	AI and agents	6w ago
Aug 3	Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity Aug 3 · AI and agents	AI and agents	7w ago
Jul 27	Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker Jul 27 · AI and agents	AI and agents	8w ago
Jul 20	Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan Jul 20 · AI and agents	AI and agents	9w ago
Jul 6	Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation Jul 6 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3mo ago
Jun 29	Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era Jun 29 · Chips and infrastructure	Chips and infrastructure	3mo ago
Jun 22	Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI Jun 22 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3mo ago
Jun 15	Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns Jun 15 · AI research	AI research	3mo ago
Jun 8	Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing Jun 8 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4mo ago
Jun 1	Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems Jun 1 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4mo ago
May 26	Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story May 26 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4mo ago
May 18	Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment May 18 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4mo ago
May 11	Import AI 456: RSI and economic growth; radical optionality for AI regulation; and a neural computer May 11 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4mo ago
May 4	Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves May 4 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5mo ago
Apr 20	Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4 Apr 20 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5mo ago

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A weekly read of AI research and policy by Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, with a short story at the end.

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