The state school boy who can protect the world from AI: How a tech billionaire born and bred in Brighton could hold the power to save humanity… but still spends his time watching Dr Who and making sausage rolls

Jack Clark is an unlikely tech bro: his alma mater, the University of East Anglia (not an Ivy League campus), his degree in English literature (not computer science, mathematics or physics). And he’s British (not American).

Outside Silicon Valley – and the nerdy world of computers – no one has really ever heard of him, certainly not on this side of the pond anyway.

Yet, at 38, Clark has quietly joined possibly the most consequential group of individuals on the planet and is about to become one of the richest.

Some people who pass him in the street might mistake him for Meta

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