By WSJ
Published on October 18, 2025
Anthropic’s problem might be that it’s the sober one at the AI rager.
One of its co-founders drew a string of unusual rebukes from the White House this past week after penning a rather personal essay about his own uneasiness around the work his industry is doing.
“Make no mistake: What we are dealing with is a real mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine,” Jack Clark, whose official title at Anthropic is head of policy, wrote on Monday. “And like all the best fairytales, the creature is of our own creation. Only by acknowledging it as being real and by mastering our own fears do we even have a chance to understand it, make peace with it, and figure out a way to tame it and live together.”