TURKEY PERSPECTIVE

Istanbul picks up the Clark metaphor from the BBC Newsnight interview and makes it the headline: "AI has an accelerator pedal, no brake pedal." BBC Turkish unfolds Jack Clark's argument — the Anthropic co-founder draws a historical parallel: the regulation of oil in the 20th century. "Society's answer was to build a reasonable policy and regulatory framework that gives people confidence about the benefits oil can bring the world. So one no longer had to worry about the character of the people running the companies. That is clearly where we have to go." For Clark, publicly speaking about AI's danger is not a marketing strategy aimed at paying clients: "the goal is simply to tell the world what is being thought inside these companies about this extraordinary technology." BBC Türkçe also reports the disturbing figure: 80% of Claude's code is already written by Claude — possibly 100% within two years, Clark says, with "enormous consequences." The Turkish angle stays sober — a mix of respect for the technique and institutional skepticism: Anthropic welcomes the Trump executive order precisely because it imposes no real control (voluntary, not mandatory). Neither Anthropic, nor OpenAI, nor Google has announced halting their own research. Turkish bottom line: people say they're hitting the brake, but no one actually does.