Odd Lots: How Anthropic Thinks About AI Safety (Podcast)

Odd Lots: Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier Odd Lots Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier There’s a lot to unpack with AI right now — everything from its potential impacts on the labor market and society to more extreme questions about existential risk. Anthropic, which builds frontier models like Mythos, Fable, and Claude, is actively grappling with these issues, including whether governments should limit AI development. Just last week, the Trump administration forced Anthropic to block foreign access to its two leading models. In this episode, we speak with Jack Clark, co-founder and head of public benefit at Anthropic, and Peter McCrory, head of economics, about how Anthropic approaches safety and economic risks. We talk about Anthropic's preparations for recursive self-improvement, the engineers it's hiring now, and why Jack left Bloomberg to enter the early AI industry. Jun 19, 2026