Anthropic co-founder predicts AI-assisted Nobel discovery within a year, AI-designed successors by 2028

        May 21, 2026

Anthropic co-founder predicts AI-assisted Nobel discovery within a year, AI-designed successors by 2028

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                X-Risk Daily

                Thursday 21 May 2026

Transformative AI

Anthropic co-founder predicts AI-assisted Nobel discovery within a year, AI-designed successors by 2028

Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, assigned a greater than 60% probability that AI systems will be capable of fully autonomous research and development by the end of 2028, according to Axios.

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