What Kelsey Piper thinks about recursive self-improvement

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Journalist writing on AI, effective altruism and global development; contributing writer at The Argument, previously a senior writer at Vox's Future Perfect.

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1. 21 Oct 2026

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

   Anthropic

   Their wordsif Anthropic is correct, if we now have AIs that are smart enough to considerably improve the process of training future AIs, and if things can be expected to speed up rather than slow down from here, then it seems very unlikely to me that this ends well.

   ↗The Opening Argumenttheargumentmag.com 2nd of 3 in this piece