AI rapidly improving, could vastly boost U.S. GDP, Anthropic's Clark tells policymakers - CNBC

Anthropic's Clark told IMF and World Bank policymakers gathered in Bangkok that AI is rapidly improving and that the pace of progress will speed up, CNBC reported on 17 October. According to the article, Clark said the technology would bring "great wealth and potentially great peril." The remarks were addressed to policymakers from the two institutions, and CNBC reports them as claims about AI's trajectory and its risks rather than as the announcement of a specific measure.

Clark said international cooperation was needed to set "unusual and serious rules" for AI, and that policymakers had a shrinking window in which to act. Both statements are attributed to him in the CNBC report. The report gives no detail on which specific rules were proposed, which bodies would draft them, or which countries would take part.

The CNBC headline states that AI is "rapidly improving" and "could vastly boost U.S. GDP," setting the potential gain to U.S. economic output alongside the call for new rules. According to the article, the audience in Bangkok consisted of IMF and World Bank policymakers, and Clark's message paired the prospect of "great wealth" with "potentially great peril." The quoted remarks do not include a figure for the projected GDP effect, and the article does not state a timeline for the rules Clark described.