Anthropic co‑founder Jack Clark urges AI safety standards on Fox News, clashes with Trump

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark pushed back against President Donald Trump’s dismissal of concerns about artificial intelligence during an appearance on Fox News, arguing that adding safeguards around the technology are “just common sense.”

Clark’s comments, on Monday’s edition of Special Report with the network’s Bret Baier, come just days after fellow co-founder Dario Amodeiwarned “we must slow down the pace,” and an Anthropic researcher quit and predicted the tech could “kill us all” within a decade.

Trump, though, has largely brushed the matter off, writing Monday on Truth Social as part of a wild posting spree, “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX.”

“We’re grateful for the president’s attention on this technology,” Clark said before adding, “We want to ensure that America succeeds AND this technology needs to be handled with care.”

“I have young children,” he explained. “When I buy toys for my young kids, there are industry standards which make sure that those toys don’t poison the kids when they stick them in their mouths, or they don’t have sharp things that they can cut themselves on. That’s just common sense. What we’re talking about here is the need to have some equivalent set of safety standards for the AI sector.”

Responding to those, including the president, who think that AI regulations would lead to the U.S. falling behind in progress to China, Clark declared, “I’ll tell you how you lose to China. You roll the dice, and you get some large-scale accident, and then you hold your industry back because you overregulate it… How you keep being ahead is you make sure that you don’t roll the dice on public safety, which is why you need to get some kind of policy regime in place.”

Watch above on Fox News.

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