The pursuit of recursive self-improvement is unlikely to end well for humanity.

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• Internal models at Anthropic and OpenAI are improving even faster than AI overall, with early recursive self-improvement beginning over the summer. ZMZvi Mowshowitz14 Sept 2026Anthropicrecursive self-improvement
• Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated. JLJan Leike22 Jan 2026Anthropicrecursive self-improvement
• AI is already inside the recursive self-improvement loop — what the labs have shipped in recent weeks shows the cycle has started. CPChamath Palihapitiya3 Aug 2026recursive self-improvement
• 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

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