What Jan Leike thinks about recursive self-improvement
Alignment researcher. Co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024 and has led alignment work at Anthropic since; writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Jan Leike has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingRecursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated.
Their wordsWe are starting to automate AI research and the recursive self-improvement process has begun.
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