Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated.

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• AI takeover is not the thing to worry about: physical constraints bound recursive self-improvement, and humans reliably act once a risk becomes immediate. NLNathan Lambert3 Feb 2025recursive self-improvement
• Coding agents already do coarse-grained recursive self-improvement, because every use rewrites their instruction files and their long-term memory. JHJensen Huang26 Jul 2026recursive self-improvement
• Coding is not just another application domain for AI; it is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive self-improvement loop. FCFrançois Chollet10 Aug 2026recursive self-improvement
• An end-to-end self-improving AI is probably possible, but it is not even desirable, because it is a hard-takeoff scenario. DHDemis Hassabis23 Jul 2025similar wording
• Progress in AI takes a very strong dozen or two researchers, not hundreds or thousands of them. MZMark Zuckerberg10 Jun 2026similar wording

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