Anthropic Co-founder Jack Clark’s recent predictions: AI will help make a Nobel Prize-winning discovery within the next year, bipedal robots doing useful work in 2 years, RSI by end of 2028

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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark predicts AI will contribute to a Nobel Prize-winning discovery within a year, bipedal robots will perform useful work in two years, and recursive self-improvement (RSI) will occur by end of 2028, based on a lecture at Oxford University.

Link to tweets: [https://x.com/deredleritt3r/status/2057847559251492902?s=20](https://x.com/deredleritt3r/status/2057847559251492902?s=20) [https://x.com/s8mb/status/2057113458173252028?s=20](https://x.com/s8mb/status/2057113458173252028?s=20) Link to article talking about him giving these predictions at a lecture at Oxford University on this past Wednesday: [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/21/ai-nobel-prize-winning-discovery-robots-jack-clark-anthropic](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/21/ai-nobel-prize-winning-discovery-robots-jack-clark-anthropic)
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