recursive
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AGI, in theory, could reach a stage of recursive self-improvement that results in a loss of human understanding or control.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
"But, after carefully adjusting the network, we eventually realized the bottleneck was recursive automatic differentiation itself."
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
Systems that require suppressing feedback or distorting reality have to fight their own optimization to stay aligned, and that fight gets worse with every generation of recursive self-improvement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we’ve heard a lot of recursive testimony over the past week, and I think it’s safe to say we’ve all learned a lot about A.I.
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023
The peculiar charm of this idea—called preformation—was that it was infinitely recursive.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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