recursive
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“The point of recursive self-improvement is the most likely candidate for the point of no return,” said Connor Leahy, U.S. executive director of ControlAI, a nonprofit that works on AI existential risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Anthropic’s Amodei suggested a slowdown as the AI arms-race takes shape around recursive self-improvement, the idea that AI could endlessly optimize itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Jakub Pachocki, chief scientist at OpenAI, wrote in a blog earlier this month that based on “internal results” he expects the speed of the development of AI systems could be “sustained into recursive self-improvement.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Within the industry, experts and researchers believe the first AI company to master recursive self-improvement will kick off exponential development, “winning” the race by making it impossible for competitors to catch up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
And I fell pretty far down that recursive wormhole until it transported me completely out of the White River High School cafeteria into some non-sensorial place only properly crazy people get to visit.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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